The 2025 Day of Translation, presented by the Center for the Art of Translation, culminates in a keynote conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri and bestselling author Katie Kitamura. Translation, broadly conceived, lies at the heart of Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura’s work. For Lahiri, translation is more than an art; it’s a profound metamorphosis, a radical act of reshaping text and self. Kitamura’s fiction features translators, interpreters, and actors, for whom translation is physical labor, an embodiment of another’s language, and a performance of intimacy. Using translation as their guide, Lahiri and Kitamura will discuss the journey of finding one’s voice in other languages and on the page. Whether you are a reader of literary translation, a literary translator at any stage in your career, or simply captivated by the movement of ideas among languages, people, and places, Day of Translation is sure to provide a passionate community to learn. Tickets are required for this event.
The Center for Fiction – 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 – accessible entrance & restroom