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Featured Audio and Articles
THAT OTHER WORD | Episode 7 | Stephen HenighanMadeleine LaRue, November 26, 2012 02:49:00 PM
Scott Esposito speaks to Stephen Henighan, a novelist, critic, and translator from Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Since 2006, Henighan has been general editor for the International Translation Series at the Canadian-based press Biblioasis. He talks about immigrant experiences in Canada and his own “deeply-rooted rootlessness,” the Canadian relationship to English and translation, and the challenges of procuring and producing translations for the Canadian market. He discusses Mia Couto’s “rural modernism,” his literary influences, and why the author travels well, despite being essentially “untranslatable.” Finally, Henighan tells the comical and haphazard story of how he came to learn Romanian, and describes the process of translating and trying to publish Mihail Sebastian’s The Accident.
Lit&Lunch with Novelist Jose Manuel Prieto in Conversation with Translator Esther AllenLit&Lunch audio, June 9, 2009 10:38:00 PM
Hear Cuban author Jose Manuel Prieto and translator Esther Allen speak about Rex, translation, Proust, and many other topics. Prieto and Allen appeared as part of the Center for the Art of Translation's Lit&Lunch series.
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.
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Three Passageways Launch Events
Posted on October 22, 2012 by Scott Esposito.jpg)
This week those lucky devils on the East and West Costs have three opportunities to hear some incredible international literature as we launch the latest TWO LINES—Passageways—with events in San Francisco, Berkeley, and New York City.
If you're in town, join us for these great events! Here are all the details:
October 24: Passageways Launch Party in New York City
Join author Naja Marie Aidt and translators Erica Mena and Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren for spirited readings from Passageways. Co-sponsored with the popular New York reading series The Bridge, this event happens at the lovely McNally-Jackson bookstore.
Hear Mena read from the politically inflected Puerto Rican poet Rafael Acevedo, Morgenstern-Clarren on the Brazilian poet Flávio de Araújo, and Aidt read from her short story "Blackcurrant," which involves sex with sheep. You can also be among the first to purchase Passageways and get it signed!
Join the best of New York City's translation scene to celebrate international literature!
- Wednesday, October 24
- McNally-Jackson 52 Prince Street (map), (between Lafayette & Mulberry), New York City
- 7:00 pm
- FREE
- Invite friends on Facebook
October 25: Passageways Launch Party in San Francisco
Come join the staff of the Center for the Art of Translation and select Bay Area translators to celebrate Passageways. It all happens in the book-lined lobby of Chronicle Books, where you'll sip wine and snack on delectable morsels before hearing readings of new writing from all over the world.
Fulbright scholar Katrina Dodson reads from The Summer of Chibo, a novel co-written by renowned Brazilian authors Vanessa Barbara and Emilio Fraia. Dan Bellm reads from Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca's beautiful, elegiac long poem "Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue," ranging across Esquinca's personal life to the Mexican state of Jalisco and even Hans Christian Andersen's fables. Lastly, local poet Denise Newman reads the bracing, sexy story "Blackcurrant."
Come join us for a drink and meet new friends!
- Thursday, October 25
- Chronicle Books
- 680 Second St. (map) (a short walk from Montgomery BART), San Francisco
- 6:00 pm
- $5 suggested donation, copy of Passageways with $10+ donation
- Invite friends on Facebook
October 26: Passageways East Bay Launch Party
Join acclaimed Berkeley poet Camille Dungy to celebrate Passageways at the lovely Berkeley bookstore Mrs. Dalloway's. Dungy co-edited the book and here reads from Passageways with celebrated Bay Area translators and authors.
We welcome Oakland-based author, translator, and previous TWO LINES contributor Carolina de Robertis. Robertis is the author of two acclaimed novels, Perla and The Invisible Mountain, as well as the translator of Roberto Ampuero’s The Neruda Case, published earlier this year by Riverhead Books.
She reads alongside San Francisco-based translator Deborah Garfinkle, who earlier this year received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN Foundation for her translations of the renowned Czech author Pavel Šrut.
- Friday, October 26
- Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore
- 2904 College Ave. (map) (at College & Ashby), Berkeley, CA
- 7:30 pm
- FREE
- Invite friends on Facebook