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Jennifer Croft

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Born

in Stillwater, Oklahoma

Website

https://croftwork.net

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Member Since

April 2011

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https://www.goodreads.com/jenniferlcroft

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Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also 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 (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize). In 2023, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband and twins.

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	Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 38,906 ratings — published 2007 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 14,213 ratings — published 2016 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 10,897 ratings — published 2014 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Extinction of Irena Rey 3.19 avg rating — 5,816 ratings — published 2024 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homesick 3.76 avg rating — 2,191 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Feelings Do When No One's Looking by Tina Oziewicz, Aleksandra Zając, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.67 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 2020 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August by Romina Paula, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 1,468 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Cemetery by Federico Falco, Jennifer Croft (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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