Alta L. Price - Events

August 14, 2024 • Women in Translation Month 2024: Old Tropes, New Conceptions

7:00pm at Women & Children First Bookstore

5233 N. Clark St.

Chicago, IL 60640

Join us for the fourth almost-annual Women In Translation Month reading! Members of Chicago's own Third Coast Translators Collective are thrilled to return to Women & Children First to present their latest translations and fill you in on #WiTMonth developments. This year's line-up includes Denise Kripper (Spanish/Argentina) and Alta L. Price (German and Italian) moderated by writer Julia Conrad.

June 23, 2023 • Another Way to Say reading series

8:00pm at Molasses Books

770 Hart St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas present their co-translation of Uruguayan poet Mariella Nigro's Memory Rewritten (White Pine Press); Alta L. Price reads from Mithu Sanyal's Identitti (Astra Hourse and V&Q Books) and a forthcoming translation of Juli Zeh's About People (World Editions); Hope Campbell Gustafson reads from Ubah Cristina Ali Farah's Commander of the River (Indiana University Press).

November 11, 2022 • V&Q Books • Translators in the Spotlight

Virtual Event: 8pm CET / 12pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT

What would international literature be without translators? Arguably, nothing but a blank page. At V&Q Books, we rely on our talented translators for our imprint's sheer existence. Their intricate work makes our books sparkle with life, so we want to stage an event highlighting the amazing things they do.

We'll hear mini-readings, talk a little bit of shop, answer your questions – and most importantly we'll highlight these dedicated literary creators: Abigail Wender, Alta L. Price, Annie Rutherford, Ayça Türkoğlu, Grashina Gabelmann, Mima Simić and Sinéad Crowe. Moderated by publisher/translator Katy Derbyshire.

October 14, 2022 • UK/IE/EU Edition • Identitti Online Launch

Virtual Event: 8pm CET / 12pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT

How about a conversation and readings and questions all about identity in literature, and Identitti in Identitti? Confused? Don't be – all will become clear as V&Q Books publisher Katy Derbyshire talks to the German-Indian writer Mithu Sanyal and her English translator Alta L. Price.

September 30, 2022 • Day of Translation

9:30am–6:00pm at The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Events

September 23–25, 2022 • Sant Jordi USA / Chicago Litfest

Join Mary Ann Newman, Erik Noonan, Lucina Schell, Daniel Borzutzky, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Izidora Angel, and Alta L. Price for the inaugural Chicago version of Barcelona's Sant Jordi Festival of Books & Roses. Three events, three neighborhoods, multiple worlds united through translation.

Haymarket House • Fri. Sep. 23, 6:30–8:00pm • 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

20th-Century Catalonia: Aristocrats, Revolutionaries, and Hermits

Seminary Co-op • Sat. Sep. 24, 1:30–3:00pm • 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Infiltrating Language Itself: Memory, Justice, and Poetry in Translation

Exile in Bookville • Sun. Sep. 25, 3:00–4:30pm • 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 210, Chicago, IL 60605

New Takes on Exile Literature: Transcending Bodies and Borders

September 20, 2022 • Goethe-Institut Boston and Brandeis University

Authors in Conversation: Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price

Virtual Event: 12pm ET / 11 am CT / 9am PT / 18.00 MEZ
Register here: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nPuamzTDT-20L1ynNpU5QQ
Join the author and translator for a reading and discussion of Identitti.

August 10, 2022 • Brazos Bookstore: Mithu Sanyal in Conversation with Alta L. Price

Virtual Event: 12 pm CT / 1pm ET / 10am PT / 19.00 MEZ
Register here: https://brazosbookstore.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ve-sJZuPRo2nPzXmvI9BtQ
Identitti book launch—Join the author and translator as they discuss the wild process of bringing this novel, a finalist for the German Book Prize, into English.

February 19, 2022 • PEN Translation Prize Finalists in Conversation

Virtual Event: 11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm MT | 1:00 pm CT | 2:00 pm ET
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_biOTlQ9FTymZLm4vi-Vmrw
We've gathered this year's finalists for the PEN America Translation Prize for a roundtable discussion about their exceptional books. Translators Sean Cotter, Alta L. Price, Julia Sanches, Lara Vergnaud, and Jeffrey Zuckerman will be in conversation with CAT Executive Director Michael Holtmann.

December 16, 2021 • Center for Fiction • Literary Translation Clinic: What does it take to Translate the Intangible?

Much of what translators work on doesn't involve "meaning" in the dictionary sense. How do practitioners handle intangibles like rhyme, alliteration and assonance, naturalness, concision, and other elements of both poetic and prose texts? The lyrical force and emotional impact of many texts require acrobatic feats to successfully exist in multiple languages. Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Alta L. Price will explore approaches to prioritizing what's most important when honing the vision for your translation.

September 22, 2021 • Center for Fiction • Literary Translation Clinic: What’s in a Title?

How do we craft the backstories—both of the books we work on, as well as our own—over the course of our developing careers? Translators Chenxin Jiang and Alta L. Price will unpack some of their shared linguistic baggage, such as working in multiple language pairs and different genres, and talk about how to handle the temptations certain types of translation offer. This is one in a series of knowledge-sharing open sessions for literary translators and appreciators of translated works from all backgrounds and experience levels.

November 19, 2020: Serata Alfa Beta / Aldo Novarese

Book Launch: Livestream with Tipoteca Italiana and Archivio Tipografico (in Italian)

October 12, 2020
ALTA43 Reading: A Cedilla Bestiary

Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:00 pm ET

Virtual via Crowdcast

To access this and all ALTA43 events, register for the conference to receive the event password.

Readers for A Cedilla Bestiary:

Jeremy Tiang

Heather Cleary

Alex Zucker

Alta L. Price

Jeffrey Zuckerman

Allison Markin Powell

Elisabeth Jaquette

Women in Translation Month 2019

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 7:00 pm
Women and Children First Bookstore
5233 N. Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640

Join us for our Annual Women in Translation reading and discussion! In 2014, literary blogger Meytal Radzinski launched WITMonth in response to Radzinski's observation that so few books published in translation were by women. Of all the books published in English each year, roughly 3 to 4 percent are translations and, of those, roughly 27 to 30 percent are by women. For this event, a lineup of writers, translators, and editors will read poetry and prose from this often overlooked, always exciting, niche and then discuss the biases affecting translations published in the United States.

This year's line-up includes:
Susan Harris (moderator)
Alta L. Price (German and Italian)
Kevin Gerry Dunn (Spanish)
Denise Kripper (Argentinian Spanish)
Todd Hasak-Lowy (Hebrew)
Winifred Bird (Japanese)

Women in Translation Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Divya Mehra, Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), 2017, digital image.

Women in Translation Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
with WiT and Margaret Carson
Thursday, April 18, 2019
3:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Goethe-Institut New York
30 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003

Book Launch: Revenge of the Translator, with Brice Matthieussent and Emma Ramadan

Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:00–8:30 p.m. ET

Brice Matthieussent, Revenge of the Translator

with Emma Ramadan

moderated by Alta L. Price

Community Bookstore

143 7th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Author Tour with Dana Grigorcea

NEW YORK

Sunday, March 31, 2019
2:00–4:00 p.m. ET
The Author's Voice
with Tim Mohr
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003

Saturday, March 30, 2019
6:00–8:00 p.m. ET
Another Country
with Liesl Schillinger
Powerhouse Arena 28 Adams St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Friday, March 29, 2019
6:00–8:00 p.m. ET
Words with Writers
with Endre M. Holéczy
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd St.
New York, NY 10022

CHICAGO

Tuesday, March 26, 2019
6:00–7:00 p.m. CT
with Irina Ruvinsky
Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

SEATTLE

Saturday, March 23, 2019
7:00–8:00 p.m. PT
with Rick Simonson
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122

SAN FRANCISCO

Thursday, March 21, 2019
7:30–8:30 p.m. PT
with Sarah Rose Etter
and Center for the Art of Translation
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94122

The Art of Eyecatching

Wednesday, October 7, 2015
12:15–2:15 p.m. ET
The Art of Eyecatching: The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic
The Typophiles, Inc.
New York, NY

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