Welcome to the second episode of Wales Arts Review’s new podcast series with Sophie Baggott, who, over the coming months, will be exploring women’s literature from around the world. BookSHElf is a new series of interviews and reviews delving into the world of translation. In this episode, Sophie Baggott talks with Jennifer Croft – winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize along with Olga Tokarczuk for her translation of Flights.
Jennifer is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She has received innumerable grants and fellowships, and is the founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review. Jennifer also won the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her novel Homesick, originally written in Spanish.
Books recommended:
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, transl. Jeffrey Zuckerman (Les Fugitives/CB Editions)
Umami by Laia Jufresa, transl. Sophie Hughes (Oneworld Publications)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Music credit: Dee Yan Key
Welcome to the second episode of Wales Arts Review’s new podcast series with Sophie Baggott, who, over the coming months, will be exploring women’s literature from around the world. BookSHElf is a new series of interviews and reviews delving into the world of translation. In this episode, Sophie Baggott talks with Jennifer Croft – winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize along with Olga Tokarczuk for her translation of Flights.
Jennifer is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. She has received innumerable grants and fellowships, and is the founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review. Jennifer also won the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her novel Homesick, originally written in Spanish.
