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December 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 11 and all video recordings are available at:
Polish Cultural Institute New York YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong> is a new video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga Tokarczuk is Poland\u2019s most recent Nobel laureate in Literature, receiving the 2018 award in 2019, after the prize had been suspended for a year. Her novels challenge common genre categories, but have been compared to Magic Realism, positing intersections of the divine or supernatural with history and everyday life, and featuring narrative figures who occupy the space between these two worlds. Witkacy called the novel a \u201csack\u201d (worek<\/em>) that could absorb every other genre, and Tokarczuk fully employs this potential, experimenting with elements of the realist novel, epistolary novel, picaresque, crime thriller, travel narrative, parable, fable, reportage, historical novel, philosophical essay, verse, encyclopedia, and other forms to create a truly unique literary voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokarczuk does not talk so much about her own biography, preferring that her writing speak for itself, but one of the most revealing essays she\u2019s written about herself and her background is included on the Nobel website, linked in the bibliography below. She was born in 1962 in Sulech\u00f3w, Poland, a child of teachers who were part of the Folk School movement and then later taught in a conventional school. She studied clinical psychology at the University of Warsaw before thinking of herself as a full-time writer. Today she divides her time between Wroc\u0142aw and the K\u0142odzko Valley in Southwestern Poland. She is an outspoken feminist and animal rights advocate, and supporter of the EU, and among her non-fiction essays, she wrote the introduction to the Polish translation of Judith Butler\u2019s Gender Trouble<\/em>. She has used part of her Nobel Prize winnings to establish the Olga Tokarczuk Foundation, based in Wroc\u0142aw, to support the work of writers and translators, and she has established the Ex-centrum Academic Research Centre at the University of Wroc\u0142aw to create an academic space for the examination of unconventional points of view that do not fit precisely in established disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode we speak with Tokarczuk\u2019s two English-language translators, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Jennifer Croft, about what it is like to work with Olga Tokarczuk and about some of the challenges and rewards involved in translating her work. We talk about Tokarczuk\u2019s idea of the \u201ctender narrator,\u201d who sees the world from a different plane than the first- and third-person narrators that we usually associate with prose fiction. The discussion focuses on their recently published translations of Tokarczuk\u2019s novels, her \u201ceco-thriller,\u201d Drive your Plow through the Bones of the Dead<\/em> and Tokarczuk\u2019s magnum opus, The Books of Jacob <\/em>about eighteenth-century Jewish messianic leader, Jacob Frank. Finally, these two successful and productive translators discuss their upcoming projects and where they will be giving workshops and conducting mentorships in literary translation in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected works by Olga Tokarczuk (U.S. editions): <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Books of Jacob<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Tr. Jennifer Croft. New York: Riverhead Books, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContributor: Olga Tokarczuk.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d Words Without Borders (website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Tr. Jennifer Croft. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House of Day, House of Night<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lost Soul<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Illustrated by Joanna Concejo. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOlga Tokarczuk. Biographical.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 (website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Tender Narrator.<\/strong><\/a>\u201d Nobel Lecture. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 (website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primeval and Other Times<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Croft<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Croft<\/strong> won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick<\/em> and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s Flights<\/em>. She is also the author of Serpientes y escaleras<\/em> and Notes on Postcards<\/em> and the translator of Federico Falco\u2019s A Perfect Cemetery<\/em>, Romina Paula\u2019s August<\/em>, Pedro Mairal\u2019s The Woman from Uruguay<\/em>, and Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s The Books of Jacob<\/em>. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. Image: photo by Nathan Jeffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/strong> has translated works by several of Poland\u2019s leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, screenplays, poetry and children\u2019s books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead<\/em> by Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. In 2018 she was awarded the Transatlantyk Prize for the best promoter of Polish literature abroad. She is a regular mentor for the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program, and a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. In 2018 he translated feature articles and interviews from Wysokie Obcasy\u2014the weekly women\u2019s supplement to Poland\u2019s main independent daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em>\u2014for Newsmavens.com, a pan-European women\u2019s news portal. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he served as Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University and Deep Springs College. He has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov, and East European cinema in such journals as East European Politics and Societies<\/em>, Indiana Slavic Studies<\/em>, Philosophy and Literature<\/em>, Prooftexts<\/em>, The Polish Review<\/em>, Slavic and East European Performance<\/em>, and Jewish Quarterly<\/em>, and he has published book chapters on Jozef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He has written the introduction and notes for Tolstoy’s „The Death of Ivan Ilych” and Other Stories<\/em> and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons<\/em> for the Barnes and Noble Classics series, and for the Penguin Classics edition of the The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories <\/em>by Bruno Schulz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer<\/em>
David A. Goldfarb, Host & Producer <\/em>
Natalia Iyudin, Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is part of  21-anniversary celebration of Polish Cultural Institute New York<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead image: Olga Tokarczuk. Photo by \u0141ukasz Giza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\nOlga Tokarczuk is Poland\u2019s most recent Nobel laureate in Literature, receiving the 2018 award in 2019, after the prize had been suspended for a year. Her novels challenge common genre categories, but have been compared to Magic Realism, positing intersections of the divine or supernatural with history and everyday life, and featuring narrative figures who occupy the space between these two worlds. Witkacy called the novel a \u201csack\u201d (worek) that could absorb every other genre, and Tokarczuk fully employs this potential, experimenting with elements of the realist novel, epistolary novel, picaresque, crime thriller, travel narrative, parable, fable, reportage, historical novel, philosophical essay, verse, encyclopedia, and other forms to create a truly unique literary voice.\nTokarczuk does not talk so much about her own biography, preferring that her writing speak for itself, but one of the most revealing essays she\u2019s written about herself and her background is included on the Nobel website, linked in the bibliography below. She was born in 1962 in Sulech\u00f3w, Poland, a child of teachers who were part of the Folk School movement and then later taught in a conventional school. She studied clinical psychology at the University of Warsaw before thinking of herself as a full-time writer. Today she divides her time between Wroc\u0142aw and the K\u0142odzko Valley in Southwestern Poland. She is an outspoken feminist and animal rights advocate, and supporter of the EU, and among her non-fiction essays, she wrote the introduction to the Polish translation of Judith Butler\u2019s Gender Trouble. She has used part of her Nobel Prize winnings to establish the Olga Tokarczuk Foundation, based in Wroc\u0142aw, to support the work of writers and translators, and she has established the Ex-centrum Academic Research Centre at the University of Wroc\u0142aw to create an academic space for the examination of unconventional points of view that do not fit precisely in established disciplines.\nIn this episode we speak with Tokarczuk\u2019s two English-language translators, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Jennifer Croft, about what it is like to work with Olga Tokarczuk and about some of the challenges and rewards involved in translating her work. We talk about Tokarczuk\u2019s idea of the \u201ctender narrator,\u201d who sees the world from a different plane than the first- and third-person narrators that we usually associate with prose fiction. The discussion focuses on their recently published translations of Tokarczuk\u2019s novels, her \u201ceco-thriller,\u201d Drive your Plow through the Bones of the Dead and Tokarczuk\u2019s magnum opus, The Books of Jacob about eighteenth-century Jewish messianic leader, Jacob Frank. Finally, these two successful and productive translators discuss their upcoming projects and where they will be giving workshops and conducting mentorships in literary translation in the near future.\nSelected works by Olga Tokarczuk (U.S. editions): \nThe Books of Jacob. Tr. Jennifer Croft. New York: Riverhead Books, 2022.\n\u201cContributor: Olga Tokarczuk.\u201d Words Without Borders (website).\nDrive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.\nFlights. Tr. Jennifer Croft. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.\nHouse of Day, House of Night. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2003.\nThe Lost Soul. Illustrated by Joanna Concejo. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2021.\n\u201cOlga Tokarczuk. Biographical.\u201d The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 (website).\n\u201cThe Tender Narrator.\u201d Nobel Lecture. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 (website).\nPrimeval and Other Times. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2010.\nJennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s Flights. She is also the author of Serpientes y escaleras and Notes on Postcards and the translator of Federico Falco\u2019s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula\u2019s August, Pedro Mairal\u2019s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s The Books of Jacob. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. Image: photo by Nathan Jeffers.\nAntonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by several of Poland\u2019s leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, screenplays, poetry and children\u2019s books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. In 2018 she was awarded the Transatlantyk Prize for the best promoter of Polish literature abroad. She is a regular mentor for the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program, and a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.\nDavid A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. In 2018 he translated feature articles and interviews from Wysokie Obcasy\u2014the weekly women\u2019s supplement to Poland\u2019s main independent daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza\u2014for Newsmavens.com, a pan-European women\u2019s news portal. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was Curator of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he served as Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.\nHe holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University and Deep Springs College. He has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov, and East European cinema in such journals as East European Politics and Societies, Indiana Slavic Studies, Philosophy and Literature, Prooftexts, The Polish Review, Slavic and East European Performance, and Jewish Quarterly, and he has published book chapters on Jozef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 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