Esther Allen
Esther Allen teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Baruch College (CUNY), where she directs the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her translation of Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, won the 2017 National Translation Award and she was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Her essays and translations have appeared in The New York Review Daily, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Bomb, and elsewhere. Read her work at www.estherallen.com.

Events
Conversation & Reading
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet

Thu, May 2, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Celebration
PEN International: 100 Years Celebrating Literature and Promoting Freedom of Expression

Wed, Nov 17, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Conversation
Translation Is a Mode = Translation Is an Anti-neocolonial Mode: Readings and Roundtable Discussion

Mon, Apr 12, 2021
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators

Fri, Sep 25, 2020
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: Postmonolingual New York with Ava Chin, Jasmine Claude-Narcisse, Damion Searls, and Lisandro Pérez

Wed, Sep 23, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: “On the Elusive Art of Translation,” with Kate Briggs and Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Magdalena Edwards

Tue, Sep 22, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Activist Translation,” with Anton Hur, Sevinç Türkkan, and Jen Hofer

Tue, Sep 15, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM