Upcoming Translation Events (Virtual & In-Person): January 2024

From L-R: “The Case of Cem” by Vera Mutafchieva, translated by Angela Rodel; “My Language is a Jealous Lover” by Adrián Bravi, translated by Victoria Offredi Poletto and Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi; “Verdigris” by Michele Mari, translated by Brian Robert Moore

Monday, January 8:

On Translating My Language is a Jealous Lover by Adrián N. Bravi with Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto | Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto will discuss translating My Language is a Jealous Lover by Adrián N. Bravi into English. They will read from the text and share their process of translating and working together on the project. Virtual. Co-hosted by the Italian American Writers Association and Brown Bag Lit Event. More info here and here. 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (ET)

 

Tuesday, January 9:

Brian Robert Moore and Hamilton Cain present Verdigris by Michele Mari | A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgangers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead. In-person. Hosted by McNally Jackson. More info here. Starts at 7:00 p.m. (ET)

 

Friday, January 19:

Us&Them: A Writer/Translator Reading Series | Us&Them gives literary translators with parallel careers as writers a place to showcase both sides of their work. For Winter 2024, K.B. Thors, Adam Kuplowsky, Nick Glastonbury, Leo Grossman will be reading. In-person. Hosted by Molasses Books. More info here. Starts at 8:00 p.m. (ET) 

 

Saturday, January 20:

No Season #5 Reading | Join us for our No Season #5 Reading, hosted by Ari Braverman, with readings by Claire Donato, LA Warman, Elina Alter '16, and Dorothee Elmiger. In-person. Hosted by Black Spring Books. Starts at 7:00 p.m. (ET)

 

Monday, January 22:

Translation Conversation Series: Johanna Hedman's The Trio, presented by Kira Josefsson and Chloe Caldwell | When Hugo takes a room in the house of one of Stockholm's wealthiest families, he unwittingly invites himself into the lives of people he will be unable to forget: Thora, a beautiful descendant of old money, and her childhood best friend August, who dreams of art. None of them have anything in common, but find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Decades later, a young woman shows up on Hugo's door in New York one morning, hoping to stay with him. She introduces herself as the child of Thora and August, and comes carrying questions about her parents that send Hugo reeling back to his youth--to two euphoric summers in Stockholm, and people to whom he is now a stranger. Timelessly familiar, tender and exultant, The Trio is a novel about the choices we could have made. About who we may have been, and the relationships that influence and linger on with us, long after they have come to an end. In-person. Hosted by McNally Jackson. More info here. Starts at 7:00 p.m. (ET)

 

Monday, January 29:

Angela Rodel Presents The Case of Cem with Edwin Frank |  Angel Rodel presents the first English-language translation of a twentieth-century Bulgarian classic, Vera Mutafchieva's sprawling novel of Ottoman court intrigue, emigration, and loss. In conversation with Edwin Frank, editorial director of the NYRB Classics series. In-person. Hosted by Rizzoli Bookstore. More info here. Starts at 6:00 p.m. (ET)

 

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