About
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel “The Extinction of Irena Rey,” which was among The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2024, and which has already been translated into nine languages. She received 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. Her memoir on pregnancy and postcards will be out with Catapult Books in 2026.
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.
