A Celebrated Translator on Her Debut Novel About Translation

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 13, 2024

Celebrated translator Jennifer Croft is best known for translating the work of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk into English. Now, she's written her first novel, a story centered on translation. When a famous Polish writer invites her group of personal translators to her home on the edge of a Polish forest, they believe that they are there to translate her new masterwork. But when the author goes missing, the translators must figure out where she has gone, and what she was working on. Jennifer Croft joins us to discuss The Extinction of Irena Rey.

*This segment is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar

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