Day of Translation Festival Returns
The San Francisco–based Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) will hold its 2025 Day of Translation Festival at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction on September 18.
The event includes three free, livestreamed panels from noon to 5 p.m.: “Resistance Translation,” a reflection on how translation can help subvert dominant narratives; “Meeting the Present Moment,” on translators navigating cultural taboos and censorships; and “Interspecies Translation,” highlighting the languages of the animal and natural worlds.
Among the panelists are literary translators Susan Bernofsky, Anton Hur, and Chenxin Jiang. The day will culminate in a ticketed keynote conversation featuring novelists Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura.
Now in its sixth year, the Day of Translation Festival “connects readers of literary translation; literary translators at every stage of their careers; and anyone interested in the movement of ideas among languages, cultures, people, and places,” per the announcement from CAT, which is also home to Two Lines Press.
Registration is open now on the CAT website.
