6:00 pm: Marta Sanz & Katie King in conversationWriting women’s bodies: tragedy or comedy? In MY CLAVICLE: AND OTHER MASSIVE MISALIGNMENTS, award-winning Spanish author Marta Sanz’s first book published in English, she dissects how society perceives women; their bodies, their pain, their fears. Humor is her scalpel. With translator Katie King, Marta describes weaving together comedy, tragedy and anatomy in this part memoir, part medical mystery, part social critique. 7pm: Peter Cole
With a focus on his translations from Arabic
7:15-8:30pm: A Bouquet of Writers
Please join us for a Big Tent Community Reading, a chance to convene and bring together literary translators and multilingual writers in the DMV for a kaleidoscopic reading and gathering. Featuring blossoms from our world's many languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Polish, Faroese, Spanish, Russian, Kosovo, Ukrainian, Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and more!
Sharif Elmusa
Rohan Chhetri
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Randi Ward
Katherine E. Young
Vivek Narayanan
Roman Kostovski
Ena Selimović
Mujib Mehrdad
Homa Mojadidi
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Yvette Neisser
Sergio Waisman
Jona Colson
Judy Leserman
Dinner service from 5:30-8:30pm.
8:30pm: Event ends