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Jennifer Croft at The Open Book
Author Jennifer Croft speaks at The Open Book, which is the University of South Carolina's hybrid literary series and group read and is always free and open to all. Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. Croft is the author of Homesick, a Saroyan Prize winner, and numerous pieces in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. In this novel about translation by one of the world’s most famous living practitioners, eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus to translate the magnum opus of a world-renown author who soon disappears without a trace. This critically and commercially hailed book offers a provocative exploration of art and the natural world. In her New York Times review, Fiona Mazel writes, “The Extinction of Irena Rey is incredibly strange, savvy, sly and hard to classify. I also couldn’t put it down…. [The novel] is mad with plot and language and gorgeous prose.”
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