Accommodations

Accommodations follows Wiola after she leaves her childhood village, a close-knit agricultural community in Poland where the Catholic calendar & local gossip punctuate daily life. Her new independence in the nearby city of Czestochowa is far from a fresh start, as she moves between a hostel & a convent brimming with secrets, taking in the stories of those around her. In the same striking prose that drew readers to her critically acclaimed debut, Accommodations navigates Wiola’s winding path to self-discovery.

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Wioletta Grzegorzewska – is a Polish-British writer living in United Kingdom since 2006. She publishes under the pen name: Wioletta Greg.

Currently, she lives in Lewes on the river Ouse. She is an accomplished poet, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Swallowing Mercury, her first prose book translated to English by Eliza Marciniak, was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. 

Greg’s tales are rich in colour & texture, facts & magic. They possess a lyrical prose offering; a picturesque depiction of a country both lost in time, yet still modern.

Wioletta’s latest novel, Wolf River, recounts her journey during the pandemic & her stay in a British women’s refuge, where she lived with her daughter for almost a year. Her novels have been translated into Catalan, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Serbian, & Lithuanian.

wioletta.greg@interia.pl

Jennifer Croft was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 & a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the recipient of Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, & National Endowment for the Arts grants & fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation & a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her illustrated memoir Homesick. Homesick won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review.