ATA67 Wrap-Up

by Kate Deimling

ATA67 in San Francisco was a whirlwind of activity for the Literary Division! Relive the highlights here, or catch up on what you missed if you weren’t able to attend.

Literary Division members in front of City Lights Bookstore

Meet-up at the amazing City Lights Bookstore…

Literary Division members seated at a long table at a restaurant.

…followed by lunch at a nearby Chinese restaurant.

Shelley Fairweather-Vega received the Lewis Galantière Award for her translation of We Computers by Hamid Ismailov.

The Literary Division table displayed publications by our members at the Book and Resource Fair. Visitors could also pick up our 2026 Catalog of Member Publications.

There was a great selection of poetry, prose, and song in translation at the After Hours Café Thursday night. Thanks to Andrea Nemeth-Newhauser for emceeing!

GLD administrator Karen Leube spoke with award-winning literary translator Michael Hofmann about his career.
A man standing by a Powerpoint presentation on a screen.
Bo Ai discussed the many challenges of translating Jane Austen into Chinese.
Liza Tripp delved into handling verb tense changes when translating fiction from French.
Petra Rieker talked about the impact of genre and reader expectations on literary translation.
Joe McClinton discussed his experience creating English supertitles for the world premiere of a Baroque opera by Antonia Bembo staged by Ars Minerva in San Francisco.
A woman standing by a Powerpoint presentation on a screen.
Marybeth Timmermann offered advice for finding clients and setting expectations as a professional literary translator.
Italian translator Courtney Greenlaw shared lessons learned from translating a multivolume fantasy novel that included multimedia components.
Christine Pawlowski discussed several translations of Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel Quo Vadis in connection with the theoretical concept of “sway.”
Azadeh Eriss spoke about various aspects of voice in translation, including taboo language, code-switching, and social meaning.

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