Jennifer Croft
From 6 October to 16 December 2020

The American writer and critic Jennifer Croft is also a translator working from the Polish, Ukrainian, and Spanish. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. Her English translation of Flights (Fitzcarraldo, 2017), by the Polish author and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Olga Tokarczuk, took the 2018 International Booker Prize. Jennifer has also received NEA, Cullman, PEN, Fulbright and MacDowell fellowships and grants, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, and a Tin House Scholarship for her novel Homesick, originally written in Spanish and published in English by Unnamed Press in 2019. She is currently translating Olga Tokarczuk’s Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob)