Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft won a Guggenheim Fellowship for The Extinction of Irena Rey , and her debut Homesick won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was longlisted for the Women's Prize, while for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Flights won the International Booker Prize. She is 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 . She has also received the...See more

Jennifer Croft won a Guggenheim Fellowship for The Extinction of Irena Rey , and her debut Homesick won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was longlisted for the Women's Prize, while for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Flights won the International Booker Prize. She is 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 . She has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Los Angeles. See less