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http://catranslation.org/events/2012-2013/#event-73Seven renowned novelists (Yiyun Li, Ann Packer, Vikram Chandra, Ayelet Waldman, Anita Amirrezvani, Sylvia Brownrigg, and K.M. Soehnlein) share the great world literature that has inspired them. In the elegant Library Room and Salon of the City Club of San Francisco, they will read the translations that have shaped their own award-winning work. Enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres and a no-host bar in a gorgeous Art Deco setting.
Buy a VIP ticket and join the writers afterward for an intimate three-course dinner at Credo Restaurant. You'll also receive a limited edition chapbook and a Center for the Art of Translation moleskine for your own bons mots.
"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations" — Ezra Pound
Voices Carry benefit event
5:30–8:30pm
The City Club, 155 Sansome Street, SF
Voices Carry exclusive dinner with guest readers (20-person limit)
8:30–10:30pm
Credo Restaurant, 360 Pine Street, SF
(included with VIP ticket only)
$75 includes event admission plus a signature cocktail and a copy of the lauded new Two Lines Press book Hi, This is Conchita, by Santiago Roncagliolo. Purchase here.
$200 VIP ticket includes all of the above plus a three-course dinner with the authors, exclusive limited edition chapbook from the forthcoming Two Lines Press title All My Friends by Marie NDiaye, and a moleskine. Purchase here.
We are also selling tickets for $45 that include event admission, heavy hors d'oeuvres, no-host bar. Purchase here.
YIYUN LI grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut short-story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won numerous national and international awards. Her novel The Vagrants won the California Book Award for fiction and was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She was selected by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40 and was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow in 2010. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space and she teaches at the University of California, Davis.
ANN PACKER is the author of four works of fiction: the novels Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, which won a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award; and two collections of short fiction, Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me. Her books have been translated into ten languages. She lives in northern California.
VIKRAM CHANDRA's latest novel, Sacred Games, was the recipient of the Hutch Crossword Prize for English Fiction (India), a Salon Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of Love and Longing in Bombay and Red Earth and Pouring Rain. His previous honors include the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the David Higham Prize, and the Paris Review Discovery prize. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.
AYELET WALDMAN is the author of the forthcoming Love and Treasure (2014), Red Hook Road, and the New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace. Her novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits was made into a film starring Natalie Portman. Her personal essays and profiles of such public figures as Hillary Clinton have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Her radio commentaries have appeared on All Things Considered and The California Report. Her books are published throughout the world, from England to Thailand.
ANITA AMIRREZVANI is an Iranian writer who grew up in San Francisco. She is the author of Equal of the Sun and The Blood of Flowers, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and heralded by Publishers Weekly, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal. The novel was also featured in the 2007 Kirkus Review's First Fiction Spotlight. She co-edited (with Persis Karim) the new anthology Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers. A former staff writer and dance critic for the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times, she is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG is the author of five novels and one collection of short stories. Her work has been on the New York Times "Notable Books" list and the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year, won a Lambda award and a Northern California Book Award. Her reviews have appeared in newspapers including The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian and the TLS. Last year Penguin published Sylvia's novel for children, Kepler's Dream, written under the pen name Juliet Bell. The paperback will be published in May 2013.
K.M. SOEHNLEIN is the author of the novels Robin and Ruby, You Can Say You Knew Me When, and The World of Normal Boys, which received the Lambda Literary Award and has been translated internationally. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, Out, and other publications and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
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