Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Sep 27, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Olga Tokarczuk |Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk writes crime novels tucked neatly into the most wondrous array of interesting humans and wild thoughts imaginable. With her precise and specific language (thanks also to her translator, Antonia Lloyd-Jones), THE EMPUSIUM takes a leap from Thomas Mann’s classic, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, and delves into the secret world of the turn-of-the-20th-century spa, a place where both mental and physical distress was to be challenged and transformed.

Sep 19, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Olga Tokarczuk |Antonia Lloyd-Jones |Chelsea Davis

“The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story” by Olga Tokarczuk. Photo: Riverhead BooksAs your doctor, I recommend you take in “The Empusium” with an open mind and a stiff pour of psychedelics. This prescription will help you keep up with the novel’s characters, a gaggle of sanatorium patients who enhance their nightly conversations with a homemade liquor that happens to be hallucinogenic.

Sep 16, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Antonia Lloyd-Jones

By Antonia Lloyd-Jones September 16th 2024 Ever since I first read “Che Guevara” in Olga Tokarczuk’s short story collection Playing Many Drums (2001), I have wanted to translate it. So, when I was asked to compile Warsaw Tales, it was one of the first stories to come to mind—an ideal contribution.

Sep 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | Antonia Lloyd-Jones

As a translator of Polish literature, I sometimes put my fellow Britons on the spot by asking if they can name a Polish author they’ve read, and the most frequent answer is Joseph Conrad. Luckily for us, he wrote in English. But we also have excellent translations available, capturing the humour and humanity across the breadth of Polish literature. Here’s a selection of the best, taking you from a remote village to the essence of human existence.

Sep 3, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Daniel Mason |Olga Tokarczuk |Antonia Lloyd-Jones |Olivia Butler

Nature as tangled forest, as oil-drenched bayou or salt desert. Nature as flux and change. In all the books discussed here, the writers use ideas of nature as backdrops for perplexing and life-changing character dilemmas. The ideas of nature are different in every case, and the protagonists are all searching for something they don’t quite understand the nature of, but the common thread is nature always presiding, abiding, inspiring and looming. Nature provoking.