"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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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39th ALTA Conference @ Oakland
The prefix “trans” reminds us that the concept of crossing is fixed at the heart of translation. Thinking about translation in this way—as a crossing, a kind of movement—suggests a rich intersection of questions about the nature of the translator’s work. Translation & Crossing asks us to think about physical ...
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Josefine Klougart @ Green Apple Books
Danish writer Josefine Klougart reads from One of Us is Sleeping, the first of her novels translated into English. More information is available here. The event is free and open to the public. When: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 – 7:30pm Where: Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, SF CA ...
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Buy Your Tickets for the Second Annual Celebration of Open Letter and Rochester
Last October, we put on our first ever celebration (or gala) here in Rochester. It was centered around the release of Rochester Knockings, which was translated from the French by local poet-translator Jennifer Grotz (who also runs the translation program at the University of Rochester). The local band The Fox Sisters played, ...
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