Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Program and in 2017 won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize.
An Inventory of Losses
Fiction by Judith Schalansky
Translated by Jackie Smith
Named a best book of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal: “Disappearance may be a forlorn theme, but it has rarely been granted such reverent contemplation, or been made to feel so powerfully tangible.”
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail.…
More Information
The stylistic flair, and variety of voice, in Jackie Smith’s mesmerizing translation turn Schalansky’s reminder that ‘Being alive means experiencing loss’ into a journey full of colour, contrast and bittersweet pleasures. An Inventory of Losses is a thoroughly memorable winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation – and one that will surely endure.—Warwick Prize winners citation, Boyd Tonkin
The translation from the German by Jackie Smith…is a triumph of subtle accuracy.—The Wall Street Journal
