Past Events

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.

Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney talk about Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes with Roberto Tejada at Houston’s Brazos Bookstore.

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.

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.

Jazmina Barrera, Jokha Alharthi, and Chloé Cooper Jones discuss motherhood as a transformation experience at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Maja Lunde, Masatsugu Ono, Irene Solá discuss nature as the most powerful character of all at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney celebrate the release of Linea Nigra with Silvia Oviedo at Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco.

Jazmina Barrera joins Lydia Kiesling to celebrate the release of Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Hosted by Third Place Books, Ravenna.

Spanish author Elena Medel and translator Lizzie Davis join writer Anna Solomon to celebrate the release of The Wonders.

This event is postponed.

Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and Man Booker winning translator Jennifer Croft join Michael Holtmann to celebrate the release of The Books of Jacob.

We’ve gathered this year’s finalists for the PEN America Translation Prize for a roundtable discussion about their exceptional books. Translators Sean Cotter, Alta L. Price, Julia Sanches, Lara Vergnaud, and Jeffrey Zuckerman will be in conversation with CAT Executive Director, Michael Holtmann.

Rachel Kushner in conversation with Isabel Fargo Cole about Wolfgang Hilbig, lust, God, statelessness, addiction, capitalism, and the writer’s place in “a century of lies.” Co-presented with Community Bookstore.

Come see Two Lines Press at the Portland Book Festival!

Isabel Fargo Cole in conversation with Hari Kunzru about her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Interim, a monumental novel from one of the greatest chroniclers of postwar Germany, moderated by Dustin Illingworth.

Margaret Jull Costa, Jenny McPhee, and Suzanne Jill Levine discuss their translations of Carvalho, Ginzburg, and Ocampo with Kate Zambreno.

Carl de Souza presents Kaya Days, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, at this year’s Litquake with Anita Felicelli.

Enjoy a wide variety of authors and translated works at Litquake’s Words Around the World series of international events. Sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation.

Come see Two Lines Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Marketplace!