Congratulations to Jess Jensen Mitchell on her translation featured in The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories!

We are pleased to congratulate final year graduate student Jess Jensen Mitchell on the publication of her translation of “Life and Love in the Hen House” by Irena Krzywicka in The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. More information on the collection can be found here. 

According to its introduction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, “in this selection of Polish short stories, we won’t find ones that are studied in school or regarded as flag-bearers. [...] Lloyd-Jones has chosen texts that show us a very wide variety of literary excellence, presenting a range of aspects from a sensibility that I don’t want to call ‘Polish’ because of its universal human qualities. [...] You may have random and unrelated cause to remember these stories many years from now, even if you’ve forgotten the names of their authors, and the impressions they leave will allow you to see Polish literature as an integral, rather than peripheral part of the world's humanist and cultural heritage.