Past Events
Celebrate the power of literature with readings from an incredible range of translated work featured in two new editions of the Calico series.
The Drawing Room Annex | 780 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA
Hemley Boum will discuss Days Come and Go, her remarkable story of three generations of Cameroonian women, with editor John McMurtrie.
The Drawing Room Annex | 780 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA
A reading of Italian Futurist Ardengo Soffici’s poetry in translation, accompanied by clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg.
The Drawing Room Annex | 780 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA
Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom this school year.
Virtual Event
Enjoy a wide variety of writers and translated works at Litquake’s Words Around the World series of international events, sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation.
Multiple Locations | San Francisco, CA
Join us for an evening of literature and cocktails as Granta celebrates its latest Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists anthology.
Visit Two Lines Press at Booth 306 at the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Marketplace!
Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza & Columbus Park, New York City
Join us for a daylong celebration of language and literature, featuring a brilliant lineup of writers, translators, publishers, and artists.
The Phillips Collection | 1600 21st Street, NW | Washington, DC 20009
Visit us at LITLIT, or The Little Literary Fair, in Los Angeles July 30 and 31! Check out the latest Two Lines Press titles and chat with staff.
Hauser & Wirth | 901 East 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA
Four eminent translators discuss the hard-fought, increasing visibility of their art and offer insight into their methods and projects.
LITLIT (The Little Literary Fair) | Hauser & Wirth | 901 East 3rd Street | Los Angeles, CA
Join Two Lines Press Publisher Michael Holtmann and fellow publishers from six beloved presses to celebrate Indie publishing, presented by Brazos Bookstore.
Authors Jazmina Barrera and Gabriela Wiener discuss their books Linea Nigra and Nine Moons with writer Rivka Galchen.
Jazmina Barrera and Kate Zambreno discuss Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, translated by Christina MacSweeney, at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn.
Books Are Magic | 225 Smith Street | Brooklyn, NY
and streaming on YouTube Live
Masatsugu Ono and Juliet Winters Carpenter celebrate the release of At the Edge of the Woods at The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle.
Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney talk about Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes with Roberto Tejada at Houston’s Brazos Bookstore.
Brazos Bookstore | 2421 Bissonnet Street | Houston, Texas
Masatsugu Ono discusses his novel At the Edge of the Woods, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, with David Karashima, author of What We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami. Co-presented with Community Bookstore.
Virtual Event
Jazmina Barrera, Jokha Alharthi, and Chloé Cooper Jones discuss motherhood as a transformation experience at the Bay Area Book Festival.
Ballroom 1 | Residence Inn | 2121 Center Street | Berkeley, CA
Translators of Latin American contemporary literature—Forrest Gander, Christina MacSweeney, Megan McDowell, and Achy Obejas—will shed light on the origins, rewards, pitfalls, and complexities of their discipline at the Bay Area Book Festival. Moderated by Nathan McNamara.
The Marsh Cabaret | 2120 Allston Way | Berkeley, CA
Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell discuss the writer/translator relationship and how they achieved a creative symbiosis in Zambra’s fifth novel, Chilean Poet, at the Bay Area Book Festival.
Tamalpais Room | Brower Center | 2150 Allston Way | Berkeley, CA
Maja Lunde, Masatsugu Ono, Irene Solá discuss nature as the most powerful character of all at the Bay Area Book Festival.
Goldman Theater | Brower Center | 2150 Allston Way | Berkeley, CA