About
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize). In 2023, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
- M.F.A., The University of Iowa
- B.A., The University of Tulsa
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Fiction
- Literary translation
- World literature
- Hybrid genres
- Prose poetry
- Non-fiction
- Digital media
- Poland and Central Europe
- Argentina and Latin America
- U.S.