Past Events

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!

Two Lines Press joins Community Bookstore to celebrate Mauritian writer Carl de Souza’s Kaya Days, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Carl and Jeffrey will be in conversation with Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist Kei Miller.

Books are Magic hosts a celebration of Cuíer: Queer Brazil, the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press.

Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom this school year.

Two Lines Press joins the Transnational Literary Series to celebrate Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, the Egyptian author’s first book to be brought into English by Robin Moger. Mohamed and Robin will be in conversation with Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi.

We join Point Reyes Books to present award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky in this celebration of her long-awaited biography of the modernist writer Robert Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small. Susan will be in conversation with Kate Zambreno, author of Drifts, a novel in which Walser hovers in the background. Kate’s forthcoming book To Write As If Already Dead circles around the author’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life.

Join us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness.

Mirene Arsanios, Sawako Nakayasu, and Mónica de la Torre will join in a roundtable discussion on Don Mee Choi’s essay Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode and its relation to their own approaches to expanded translation practice and complex linguistic-cultural identity. The roundtable will be moderated by Esther Allen. Co-presented by Ugly Duckling Presse and CUNY Center for the Humanities.

Point Reyes Books hosts a celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press with translators Jessica Cohen, Allison Charette, and Brian Bergstrom. Moderated by Cristina Rodriguez.

The 3rd annual Swahili Literary Festival will explore Woman and her immense role in Swahili Heritage exemplified in traditional and modern practices.

AWP looks different this year, but here’s where you can (virtually) find us if you’re attending.

Join Community Bookstore(opens in a new tab) and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom, brilliantly translated by Christina MacSweeney. Spanish author Elvira Navarro joins translator Christina MacSweeney to discuss Rabbit Island with Sarah Rose Etter.