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Celebration of Julio Cortázar @ Green Apple Books

Presented by the Center for the Art of Translation As part of our ongoing partnership with the annual Litquake literary festival and City Lights Books, the Center is delighted to be hosting a celebration of Julio Cortázar with our favorite Bay Area translators. Join Stephen Kessler, translator of the forthcoming Save ...

Bae Suah @ Volumes Bookcafe

Volumes is thrilled to announce have Bae Suah, one of the most lauded contemporary South Korean writers, along with her translator, Deborah Smith, in conversation about Bae Suah’s newly translated book, A Greater Music. Deborah Smith most recently translated the 2015 Man Booker Winning novel, The Vegetarian, by Han ...

Bae Suah @ Elliott Bay Book Company

Join Korean author Bae Suah in conversation with translator Deborah Smith. Bae Suah’s A Greater Music (Open Letter) is a heart-wrenching story of the two love affairs a young Korean writer experiences while living in Germany. A novel of memories and wandering, A Greater Music blends riffs on music, language, and ...

"Books that Make Demands of the Reader" w/ Can Xue

“Books that Make Demands of the Reader” Best Translated Book Award winner Can Xue (The Last Lover, Vertical Motion, Frontier) writes books that blend elements of the Western literary translation with those from Eastern philosophy. As a result, her books are less about the things that happen and more about the ...

Bae Suah @ Powell's Books

Join Korean author Bae Suah in conversation with translator Deborah Smith. Bae Suah’s A Greater Music (Open Letter) is a heart-wrenching story of the two love affairs a young Korean writer experiences while living in Germany. A novel of memories and wandering, A Greater Music blends riffs on music, language, and ...

Bae Suah @ Green Apple Books on the Park

Join translator Deborah Smith in conversation with South Korean writer Bae Suah about her novel, A Greater Music. More information is available here. The event is free and open to the public. When: Friday, October 7, 2016 @ 7:30pm Where: Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, SF CA ...

Literary Death Match feat. Bae Suah

Join Bae Suah and more for a special Translators Edition of Literary Death Match on Thursday, October 6th, at 7 p.m. at the Shadow Ultra Lounge in Oakland, CA! Literary Death Match, co-created by Adrian Todd Zuniga, marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol’s ...