In conjunction with Transit Books present translator Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft, a celebration of the new book "The Tree and the Vine," by Dola de Jong, translated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman, published by Transit Books.
First published in 1954 in the Netherlands, Dola de Jong's The Tree and the Vine was a groundbreaking work in its time for its frank and sensitive depiction of the love between two women, now available in a new translation.
Kristen Gehrman lives in The Hague, The Netherlands. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, she studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. In addition to her work as a literary translator, she teaches translation, editing, and writing at Leiden University and VU Amsterdam.
Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights.
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Event hosted by City Lights Bookstore's Peter Maravelis and originally broadcast via Zoom on Sunday, August 23, 2020.
