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The Art/Craft/Work of Translation
Thursday October 24, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
Part of Litquake’s Words Around the WorldCo-presented with Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press

Translator Sophie Hughes describes translation as “a playful pursuit of equilibrium across an entire work, an exhilarating and, yes, joyful balancing act of loyalties: to sense, to significance, and to style.” Writer and translator May Huang who translates from Chinese; Sabrina Jaszi, a writer and translator working from Russian, Uzbek, and Ukrainian languages; and Japanese translator and professor Andrew Way Leong talk about their own “playful pursuits” and “balancing acts” in their translation practices and offer insight into their methods and projects. Moderated by Giovanna Lomanto. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Telegraph Hill Books.
Moderators
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Giovanna Lomanto

Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and photographer who has published three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a limited edition art book. Her latest collection, driver’s seat echo, is available now. A recent graduate of the MFA program at New York University... Read More →
Authors and Participants
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Andrew Leong

Andrew Way Leong is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He translates Japanese-language literature written by Japanese Americans. His most recent translations include two stories in The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, edited by... Read More →
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May Huang

May Huang is a translator and writer from Hong Kong. Her translation of Derek Chung's A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist was published in 2023 via Zephyr Press. Her writing and translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Circumference, Electric... Read More →
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Sabrina Jaszi

Sabrina Jaszi is a translator, editor, and writer in Oakland, CA. Together with Roman Ivashkiv, she translated Andriy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things. Other work of hers has been published by the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Subtropics, The Dial, and Words... Read More →
Thursday October 24, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Writers Grotto (1663 Mission St #602, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
  Words Around the World
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  • about Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and photographer who has published three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a limited edition art book. Her latest collection, <em>driver’s seat echo</em>, is available now. A recent graduate of the MFA program at New York University, her work has been supported by the SFMOMA, Litquake, KQED, and various reading series around the Bay Area. She currently serves as the co-publisher of the small press <em>Game Over Books</em>, and is dedicated to bringing Queer &amp; BIPOC voices to the forefront of the arts scene.

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