MY WRITING DAY
Jennifer Croft
The author and Booker International Prize-winning translator tells Lynne Hackles how she needs as much light as possible as she multi-tasks her way through various projects
Lynne Hackles
J ennifer Croft is a multi-award-winning author and translator. Add twins to the mix and my question has to be, ‘How do you manage to write?’
‘My twins are almost nine months old now,’ she says, ‘and we’re still figuring out how to cope. Thankfully, my husband, Boris Dralyuk, has turned out to be the best and most attentive and most creative dad, which was reassuring as I began to get back to work.
‘In general, I’m a little bit of an all-or-nothing person. My husband who is a translator, as well as an editor and a poet, is great at multi-tasking and at creating reasonable routines that enable him to get his work done at a slow and steady pace. So, unlike me, he’s extremely reliable.