Jennifer Croft 

Longlist, 2022 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2018 National Book Awards

Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, the 2018 International Booker Prize, and a Tin House Scholarship for her novel Homesick, originally written in Spanish.
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The Books of Jacob

book cover for Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
ISBN 9780593087480 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Translated from the Polish . The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. More about this book >

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Flights

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ISBN 9780525534198 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Translated by Jennifer Croft Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? More about this book >

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Jennifer Croft and Olga Tokarczuk read at the NBAs Finalists Reading

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Jennifer Croft 

Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, the 2018 International Booker Prize, and a Tin House Scholarship for her novel Homesick, originally written in Spanish. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Granta, The Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, VICE, n+1, Electric Literature, Tin House, Lit Hub, Guernica, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

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