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Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel Amadou, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir, Homesick, and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She has also translated Sylwia Chutnik, Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Federico Falco, Pedro Mairal, Sylvia Molloy, Bronka Nowicka, Romina Paula, Sylwia Siedlecka, Natalka Sniadanko, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and many others. She lives in Tulsa.

Mar/Apr 2022

Anaheim

By Jennifer Croft

Whenever an artist won a prize, they always told the same story: that shortly before their victory, they had contemplated giving up on acting or singing or photographing rare pelagic […]