Events
The Center for the Art of Translation’s public programs offer diverse experiences with translation, broadly conceived, through both intimate gatherings and large-scale events in San Francisco and beyond.
Bookstores in Belmont, Bozeman, Brooklyn, Decatur, Denver, London, Missoula, Pittsburgh, Quebec City, and San Francisco celebrate the release of Splendor: Trans Poets.
Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom.
Aaron Coleman and Jon Cho-Polizzi discuss the challenges and revelations of translating the Black diaspora: examining continuities and ruptures across languages, geographies, and time.
Prix Goncourt-winning author Mathias Énard discusses his new novel, Perfecting the Shot, with Nicole Krauss.
Online & In-Person
Center for the Art of Translation and San Francisco Center for the Book join Litquake to present an evening showcasing the sculptural artists’ books of Bay Area artist Servane Briand.
Author and journalist Lin Hierse and translator-scholar Jon Cho-Polizzi on language, place, and belonging.
Words Around the World, a series of literary events presented as part of San Francisco’s annual Litquake Festival and co-sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation, celebrates global literature with readings and conversations with international writers and translators.
Anne Pauly presents Before I Forget at the Boston Book Festival with Bruno Perreau.
Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows host this fun workshop and spontaneous performance for youth writers.
Mieko Kawakami discusses Sisters in Yellow with the translator, Hitomi Yoshio.
Online & In-Person
If you have questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in an event, please email leslie-ann@catranslation.org(opens in a new tab) or call (415) 512-8812 with as much advance notice as possible.
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