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Featured Audio and Articles
TWO VOICES: Stephen Snyder on Yoko Ogawa, Haruki Murakami, and the Business of International LiteratureScott Esposito, May 12, 2011 11:39:00 AM
Early in this Two Voices event, translator Stephen Snyder made a bold pronouncement: Haruki Murakami would win a Nobel prize, and 1Q84, his blockbuster novel that many are comparing to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, would be the book to do it. Snyder wasn't wholly going out on a limb. As he told the audience, he correctly predicted Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel prize in 1994. But more to the point of his presentation, Snyder has seen the intricacies of the publishing industry close up, and he has a strong sense of how tastes are made with regard to inernational authors.
TWO VOICES: Margaret Jull Costa on Jose SaramagoScott Esposito, August 28, 2012 12:34:00 PM
On August 13, Margaret Jull Costa joined the Center to discuss her work with some of the greatest authors to emerge from Spain and Portugal in the 20th century. Translator of Javier Marias, Antonio Lobo Antunes, and Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, among many others, Costa gave an insightful overview of Saramago's long career while discussing his perculiar, beautiful, and wholly original prose style. Costa began her presentation by giving some idea of Saramago's context as a writer, developing a sense of his literary roots.
TWO VOICES: Joshua Beckman Presents Micrograms by Jorge Carrera AndradeScott Esposito, October 13, 2011 11:40:00 AM
"The purpose of this book is to send readers off to new places--new places of the mind." So began Joshua Beckman's Two voices presentation of Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade, described, in part, as the Japanese concept of haiku translated into the Latin America of the 20th century.
Upcoming Events
A Celebration of 20th-Century Italian Poetry
June 5, 2013
Center for the Art of Translation and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura present A Celebration of 20th-Century Italian Poetry!
Audio Entries
June 12: A Night of Fairy Tales
Posted on May 14, 2012 by Scott Esposito
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join us for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar take you deep into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales. And these aren't the fairytales you grew up with—they're the darkest, scariest tales you've ever heard! A reception with cash bar will follow the event.
If you can make it, definitely plan to drop by. This event is super affordable, and promises to be a memorable experience!
June 12
8:30 pm
Viracocha
998 Valencia Street, in the Mission
$5 — order tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
And here are our awesome guests:
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures and Folklore & Mythology at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in the fields of German Studies, Children’s Literature, and Folklore. She is the author of Classic Fairy Tales, Annotated Peter Pan, Enchanted Hunters, and other volumes.
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. His anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, was published by Harper Collins in March, 2010.
Kate Bernheimer is the author of a trilogy of fairy-tale novels and the story collection Horse, Flower, Bird (Coffee House Press 2010) and edited My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin 2010), a World Fantasy Award nominee and Shirley Jackson Awards finalist. She also has edited two essay collections about fairy tales and writes children's books. She founded and edits the literary journal Fairy Tale Review and is Associate Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.