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Podcast: Notes from Poland
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Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:34:43
Publish Date: 2019-11-21 14:00:00
Description:

In the first episode of the Notes from Poland podcast, Stanley Bill talks to Jennifer Croft, the award-winning American translator of Poland's new Nobel laureate, Olga Tokarczuk.

In an in-depth interview with Jennifer Croft, Stanley Bill asks about Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel triumph; the masterpiece The Books of Jacob, which Jennifer is currently translating into English; the earlier novel Flights, for which Jennifer and Tokarczuk won the International Booker Prize in 2018; Jennifer's own writing, including her recently published memoir Homesick; the relation between writing and translation; and Jennifer's path into Polish culture.

Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski

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