A conversation with writer, translator, film critic, and political activist Mima Simić on Every Time We Say Goodbye (V&Q Books), her ongoing collaboration with Ivana Sajko, placelessness and translation, and writing and translating from the margins. She has translated two of Sajko's novels, Love Novel and Every Time We Say Goodbye, and is working on a third. Tickets redeemable against the cost of the book(s) on the night.

Author Anna Maconochie discusses her new book Diamond Life, a collection of short stories about the love and work lives of creative millennials in London, published by Heloise Press. Tickets redeemable against a copy of the book on the evening of the event.

Author Fiston Mwanza Mujila and translator Roland Glasser in conversation to celebrate the UK publication of The Villain's Dance (And Other Stories) — Zaire in the late 90s, Mobutu's tottering reign, street kids, diamond hunters, and the Villain's Dance from dusk till dawn. Tickets redeemable against a copy of the book on the night. Supported by Institut Francais in the UK.

Two evening sessions delving into the work of Cristina Rivera Garza, Bookless Bookclub style: excerpts from The Taiga Syndrome (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana), The Iliac Crest (tr. Sarah Booker), the forthcoming Autobiography of Cotton (tr. Christina MacSweeney), and more — translation, violence, disappearances, fairy tales. No preparation needed; sessions free with limited seats. 24 April and 29 May, 6.30-8pm at Tills Bookshop by the Meadows.

A conversation with Ali Isaac about her book Imperfect Bodies, a literary memoir on mothering a girl with a rare genetic disease — exploring social and political definitions of normality, motherhood, identity, and the able and dis-abled body. Tickets redeemable against a copy of the book on the night. Sold out.

An evening celebrating the life-long friendship between Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail and Glaswegian novelist Alasdair Gray. Aonghas' wife Gerda Stevenson, actress and writer, in conversation with Makar Peter Mackay, hosted as part of Book Week Scotland, in collaboration with the Alasdair Gray Archive in Glasgow — with a display of inscribed books from Aonghas' personal library, including a collection of his poems inscribed by Alasdair. Ticket price redeemable against a copy of beyond, Aonghas' posthumously published book of English poetry.

A conversation with Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne around translation, Balkan women's writing, and exile, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody by Maria Kassimova-Moisset, published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books in Perth.

Author Park Seolyeon and translator Anton Hur in conversation about writing and translating political fiction, explored through their latest novel, Capitalists Must Starve.

An evening at Tills Bookshop with Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.

The Edinburgh launch of Laura Vogt's latest novel to be translated into English, Woman, Idle — published in the UK by Heloise Press and translated by Caroline Waight. What kind of woman have I become? What kind of woman do I want to be?

July reading group discussing Ali Smith's Summer — the fourth in a year-round literary journey through Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, hosted by Tills booksellers. The Quartet was a publishing experiment, written quickly over a single year and printed weeks after the manuscripts were finished; Summer is a shimmering, elegiac tapestry of voices capturing the restless pulse of a world on edge. Ticket includes 10% off the book and 33% off A3 posters of the series.

An intimate roundtable with translator Nedra Rodrigo about translation as a decolonial practice focusing on the land.

For a second summer in a row, a series of three seminars delving into Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, following Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo across their sixty-year friendship — novels that changed how we understand authorship and translation.

A series of four summer seminars, each exploring one of Ferrante's standalone novels: Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and The Lying Life of Adults.

Never Did the Fire is a peculiar novel, full of ambiguity, strangeness and repetitions — Eltit's experimental style hand in hand with her political commitment. How to translate a language so embedded in its time and circumstances?

On the hierarchical relationship between languages under colonialism: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The Language of Languages and its idea of a network of languages with translation at its centre, alongside Jon Cho-Polizzi's reflections as translator of Ada's Realm on decentralising a historically eurocentric translation theory.

To read A Book, Untitled is no mean feat: on both levels — Avagyan's original writing and Cachoian-Schanz's translation — Girq asks its readers to accept not always understanding what is going on, or whose voice we are reading.

Two works on language and identity as interconnected — able to create, transform, and mould each other. Reflections on forced displacement, losing one's native language, and rebuilding one's self around, and through, an entirely new one.

This Little Art is a dense, bold and thought-provoking essay exploring translation in a personal, heartfelt way — a great introduction to complex ideas about translation that makes the reader feel intimately involved in the translator's world.