Flights

About the Author

Born in 1962 in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk is one of her country’s most beloved authors. In 2015 she received the Brückepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland’s highest literary honour, the Nike Award, and the Nike Readers’ Prize. Tokarczuk also received a Nike in 2008 for Flights. She is the author of eight novels, two short story collections and has been translated into a dozen languages.

Jennifer Croft is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN and National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as the Michael Henry Heim Prize, and her translations from Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian have been published widely. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.