All things translation—February at CAT
February happenings at the Center for the Art of Translation.
For all you Punxsutawney Phil aficionados out there, you’re well aware that the old groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter. While some of us were hoping for an early spring, the continued chill is a reminder to hunker down. The current political climate calls for action, but with the wind and rain, it’s a good and important time to remember to stay warm—with the comfort of our loved ones, with practices to keep us grounded, and maybe even with a good book.
The Center for the Art of Translation is proud to bring international voices to the forefront of the conversation, highlighting how diversity and outside perspectives can enrich the way we think, act, and react. Rest assured, we’re still going strong! And you can read about all we’re continuing to do for the translation community right here.
Two Lines Press is gearing up for February 18: the day that The Voices of Adriana—the latest from Spanish writer Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney—is released into the world. The book is a thrilling metafiction, in which Adriana has become obsessed with her father’s online dating. Recently widowed, he’s on a self-destructive, manic search for a partner to accompany him through his twilight years. At the same time, her life as an isolated grad student feels unreal, and to fill the void of her mother’s death, Adriana begins writing, trying on different voices. She builds worlds from the online profiles of her father’s flings, that is until more fundamental voices—those of her grandmother and mother—begin calling out to her in the night. The Voices of Adriana is an innovative novel about grief and how we might reanimate the voices of those we’ve lost, not as ghosts, but as living parts of ourselves.
February 28—March 2, 2025
Longtime friend of the CAT Elvira Navarro (author of Two Lines Press books A Working Woman, Rabbit Island, and now The Voices of Adriana!) will be traveling from Spain to visit us here on the West Coast. Check out details of her tour in San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon, below:
Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Ave | San Francisco, CA
February 28, 2025 | 7:00 pm PST
Green Apple Books on the Park welcomes Spanish author Elvira Navarro for the San Francisco stop of her US tour celebrating the English release of her novel The Voices of Adriana. She will be in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter.
Powell’s City of Books | 1005 W. Burnside St. | Portland, OR
March 2, 2025 | 7:00 pm PST
Powell’s City of Books welcomes Spanish author Elvira Navarro for the Portland stop of her US tour celebrating the English release of her novel The Voices of Adriana. She will be in conversation with Kimberly King Parsons.
In 2024, we welcomed our third annual cohort of Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows. Congratulations, all! We’ll introduce the 2024-2026 Teaching Fellows to the CAT community over the next few months.
Read our full feature below!
