{"id":17525,"date":"2026-08-30T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17525"},"modified":"2026-08-30T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:47:16","slug":"publisher-spotlight-two-lines-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17525","title":{"rendered":"Publisher Spotlight: Two Lines Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolinespress.com\/\">Two Lines Press<\/a> is the publishing program of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Their Calico series &#8220;curates collections of translated works that explore particular themes, regions, languages, historical moments, or literary styles.&#8221; The fifteen works of SFT they&#8217;ve published since 2010 have been translated from the Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, German, Dutch, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOVELS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-1 wp-block-group\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a 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