Center for the Art of Translation

An inventory of abandonment and abuse, inevitable diary of death and of growing up, a diatribe against routine religious fervor, and a bitter collection of involuntary poetry…extraordinary.

—Alejandro Zambra, author of My Documents

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A celebration of both storytelling and translation, Elemental is essential, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.”

—Hugh Raffles, author of The Book of Unconformities

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Poetry Inside Out is a cross-cultural literacy and language arts program built around hands-on creative writing, literary analysis, and cultural awareness. The world poetry and translation curriculum combines academic skill-building and social-emotional development and inspires kids to see themselves as readers, writers, thinkers, and world citizens.

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Our events bring international writers and translators together for original and provocative conversations about literature and language. As much as we’d love to host you in person, our virtual events give you the chance to join the conversation without traveling and support independent bookstores.

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Two Lines Journal

Fiction | Apr 2021

The Killer

撞死了一只羊

By Tsering Norbu

Translated from Chinese

By Riga Shakya

Poetry | Mar 2021

(as they must) | Bus Stop: Israelitischer Friedhof | Fish

By Maria Stepanova

Translated from Russian

By Sasha Dugdale

Poetry | Dec 2020

from Stillness

By Mats Söderlund

Translated from Swedish

By Olivia Olsen

Fiction | Dec 2020

Death by Scorpion

By Armonía Somers

Translated from Spanish

By Kit Maude

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Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode: Readings and Roundtable Discussion

April 12, 2021

Virtual Event

Mirene Arsanios, Sawako Nakayasu, and Mónica de la Torre will join in a roundtable discussion on Don Mee Choi’s essay Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode and its relation to their own approaches to expanded translation practice and complex linguistic-cultural identity. The roundtable will be moderated by Esther Allen. Co-presented by Ugly Duckling Presse and CUNY.

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Featured Blog Posts

Spring 2021 in Translation Books Preview

Anna Claire Weber—reader, writer, and indie bookseller at Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore—offers up a handful of upcoming translated titles to add to your to-read pile

April 7, 2021
“We Should Also Translate the Spirit”: Kiswahili Literature in Translation

Notes on the 3rd Annual Swahili Literary Festival and the translation of African languages.

April 2, 2021
March 2021 Translation News Roundup

Your monthly roundup of translation and publishing news, plus other updates in literature and arts education that you may have missed!

March 31, 2021

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