Jennifer Croft: The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jennifer Croft + Heather Zwicker
Auditorium 2, slq
Regular Program
1132
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Having made her name as a peerless translator of works including Olga Tokarczuk’s Man Booker International winner Flights, Jennifer Croft has turned her talented hand to writing fiction. Her debut novel is a paranoid, hallucinatory tale about the deceptive qualities of language. Replete with an ancient forest, a global ensemble of characters and a disappearing author, The Extinction of Irena Rey is an ethereal mystery not to be missed.
#Artists
Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize).
Heather Zwicker
Heather Zwicker moved to Meanjin/Brisbane in 2018 and intends never to return to a world full of winter and devoid of kookaburras: Canada, where she spent most of her life, as well as periods in Tanzania, California and Hawaii. She is Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland.
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