Jennifer Croft

2 months ago | sites.lsa.umich.edu | Jennifer Croft

Andrei picked up an unused bread plate from a nearby table. “This is Bishkek,” he said, pointing to one edge. He swept his finger across the plate’s diameter to the opposite side. “Here is Eugene.” Pronouncing the name of my hometown, he emphasized the first syllable, shortened the second: Yew-jin. “It’s mistika.” I stood next to him, translating for my friends and relatives gathered on the terrace of a lakeside resort in Wisconsin.

Sep 19, 2024 | centerforfiction.org | Don Mee Choi |Jennifer Croft |Bruna Dantas Lobato |Lily Meyer

Register for FreeClear Thursday, 12:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDTSeptember 26, 2024 The Center for Fiction& LivestreamedOn Thursday, September 26th, the Center for the Art of Translation will present its annual Day of Translation. Co-hosted this year at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York, this afternoon symposium of provocative panels on language and literature will conclude with a keynote address delivered by poet and translator Don Mee Choi.

Jun 21, 2024 | stanfordmag.org | Jen Beagin |Jennifer Croft |Bloomsbury Publishing |Steven Rowley

The weather is warm and your fellow alums are fired up about books. We asked an astronaut, an influencer, a social justice advocate, and others which books you simply must read. So settle in by the pool, or the lake, or the air conditioner, and enjoy.

Jun 12, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jeannie Vanasco |Jennifer Croft |Susanna Clarke |Shze-Hui Tjoa

Reading Lists Shze-Hui Tjoa recommends memoirs and novels written as letters, therapy sessions, diary entires, interviews, and Slack messages I love it when a text centers the dynamics of conversation. In my own life, talking to others gets me out of my head, and introduces me to possibilities I would never have dreamed of alone. I think of a quote by the activist Valerie Kaur, which my local bookshop has printed on some of its merchandise: “You are a part of me I do not yet know.” That’s...

May 27, 2024 | thecommononline.org | Jennifer Croft

By JENNIFER CROFTReview by CHRIS JOHN POOLE At first, the autobiographical roots of The Extinction of Irena Rey seem simple to trace. This is a novel by writer-translator Jennifer Croft, who works in Spanish and Polish; its protagonist is a Spanish writer-translator. This is a novel from the acclaimed translator of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights; the eponymous Irena Rey is a Polish literary megastar.