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Transatlantyk Award 2018

Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Polish English

(born 1962) is a British translator of Polish literature based in London. She is best known as the long-time translator of Olga Tokarczuk’s works in English, including Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019. The former co-chair of the Translators Association in the United Kingdom from 2015 to 2017, she is also a mentor for the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme in the National Centre for Writing and has mentored several early-career translators from Polish into English.

Translations

  • Constantine, Helen, ed. (2022). Warsaw Tales. Oxford: Oxford university press.
  • Dehnel, Jacek (2012). Saturn. Sawtry: Dedalus Books.
  • Dehnel, Jacek (2019). Lala. London: OneWorld. 
  • Gombrowicz, Witold (2023). The Possessed. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (1991). Who was David Weiser?. London: Bloomsbury. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (1996). Moving House and Other Stories. London: Bloomsbury. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (2005). Mercedes-Benz: From Letters to Hrabal. London: Serpent’s Tale. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (2007). Castorp. London: Serpent’s Tale. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (2008). The Last Supper. London: Serpent’s Tale. 
  • Huelle, Paweł (2012). Cold Sea Stories. Manchester: Comma Press. 
  • Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław (2002). The Birch Grove and Other Stories. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press.
  • Lem, Stanisław (2020). “Professor A. Dońda” in Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
  • Lem, Stanisław (2021). The Truth and Other Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 
  • Łozinski, Mikołaj (2025). My Name is Stramer. London: Pushkin Press.
  • Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (2010). Entanglement. London: Bitter Lemon.
  • Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (2012). A Grain of Truth. London: Bitter Lemon.
  • Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (2016). Rage. Seattle: Amazon Crossing.
  • Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (2018). Priceless. Seattle: Amazon Crossing.
  • Rudzka, Zyta (2024). Doctor Josef’s Little Beauty. New York: Seven Stories.
  • Słoniowska, Żanna (2017). The House with the Stained-Glass Window. London: MacLehose.
  • Szymiczkowa, Maryla (2020). Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing. Boston: Mariner Books.
  • Szymiczkowa, Maryla (2021). Karolina and the Torn Curtain. Boston: Mariner Books.
  • Tokarczuk, Olga (2002). House of Day, House of Night. London: Granta Books.
  • Tokarczuk, Olga (2009). Primeval and Other Times. Prague: Twisted Spoon.
  • Tokarczuk, Olga (2019). Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. New York: Riverhead Books.
  • Tokarczuk, Olga (2021). The Lost Soul. New York: Seven Stories Press. 
  • Tokarczuk, Olga (2024). The Empusium. New York: Riverhead. 
  • Wawszczyk, Wojtek (2022). Mr Lightbulb. Seattle: Fantagraphics.

Poetry

  • Dąbrowski, Tadeusz (2011). Black Square: Selected Poems. Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press. 
  • Dąbrowski, Tadeusz (2018). Post. Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press. 
  • Dąbrowska, Krystyna (2022). Tideline. Translated by Kovacik, Karen; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia; Rosenthal, Mira. Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press. 

Non-fiction:

  • Czapski, Józef (2018). Inhuman Land: A Wartime Journey through the USSR. New York: New York Review of Books. 
  • Domosławski, Artur (2012). Ryszard Kapuściński. London: Verso.
  • Hugo-Bader, Jacek (2012). White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia. London: Granta Books.
  • Hugo-Bader, Jacek (2017). Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland. London: Portobello Books.
  • Jagielski, Wojciech (2012). The Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  • Jagielski, Wojciech (2015). Burning the Grass: At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  • Jagielski, Wojciech (2020). All Lara’s War. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  • Kapuściński, Ryszard (2018). The Other. London: Verso.
  • Kizny, Tomasz (2004). Gulag. Buffalo, NY: Firefly.
  • Olczak-Ronikier, Joanna (2004). In the Garden of Memory : a Family Memoir. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  • Rejmer, Margo (2021). Mud Sweeter Than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania. London: MacLehose Press.  (co-translated with Zosia Krasodomska-Jones)
  • Rudolf, Anthony (2016). Jerzyk : Diaries, Texts and Testimonies of the Urman Family. Exeter: Shearsman Books.
  • Szabłowski, Witold (2013). The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey. London: Stork Press. 
  • Szabłowski, Witold (2018). Dancing Bears. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Szabłowski, Witold (2020). How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Szczeklik, Andrzej (2005). Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Szczeklik, Andrzej (2012). Kore: On Sickness, the Sick, and the Search for the Soul of Medicine. Berkeley: Counterpoint.
  • Szczygieł, Mariusz (2014). Gottland. Brooklyn: Melville House.
  • Tochman, Wojciech (2009). Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia. London: Portobello.
  • Wittlin, Józef; Sands, Philippe (2016). City of Lions. London: Pushkin Press.
  • Szabłowski, Witold (2023). What’s Cooking in the Kremlin?. New York: Penguin Books.

Children’s books:

  • Boglar, Krystyna (2017). Clementine Loves Red. London: Pushkin Children’s Books. (co-translated with Zosia Krasodomska-Jones)
  • Korczak, Janusz (2012). Kaytek the Wizard. New York: Penlight. 
  • Małkowski, Tomasz (2022). The Boy Who Sees with His Fingers. Milan: MIMebu.
  • Mizielińska, Aleksandra; Mizieliński, Daniel (2013). Maps. London: Big Picture Press.
  • Mizielińska, Aleksandra; Mizieliński, Daniel (2016). Under Earth, Under Water. London: Big Picture Press.
  • Mizielińska, Aleksandra; Mizieliński, Daniel (2017). Maps Special Edition. London: Big Picture Press.
  • Mizielińska, Aleksandra; Mizieliński, Daniel (2020). Maps Deluxe Edition. London: Big Picture Press.
  • Oziewicz, Tina (2024). What Feelings Like Best. London: Pushkin Press.
  • Pawlak, Pawel (2019). Oscar Seeks a Friend. London: Lantana Publishing.
  • Rusinek, Michał (2012). Little Chopin. Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
  • Rusinek, Michał (2014). 1989: A Small Book About a Curtain, About Chocolate, and About Freedom. Warsaw: Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.
  • Rusinek, Michał (2015). The Presidential Palace for Children. Warsaw: Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.
  • Tuwim, Julian (2014). Mr Miniscule and the Whale. Bristol: Book Island.
  • Wechterowicz, Przemyslaw (2017). The Secret Life of a Tiger. London: The Quarto Group. 
  • Wilkoń, Józef (2014). Little Kitty Miaow Miaow. Warsaw: Hokus-Pokus.

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