Jennifer Croft won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights. She has also received NEA, Cullman, PEN, Fulbright, and MacDowell fellowships and grants, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation, the 2018 Found in Translation Award, and a Tin House Scholarship for her memoir Homesick, originally written in Spanish. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Granta, BOMB, VICE, n+1 , Electric Literature , Tin House, Lit Hub, Guernica, the New Republic, The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires.
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The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are ... SEE MORE