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Alex Zucker

Contributor

Alex Zucker

Alex Zucker has translated novels by Bianca Bellová, Jáchym Topol, Petra Hůlová, Tomáš Zmeškal, and Heda Margolius Kovály, among others. He has also Englished stories, plays, essays, young adult and children’s books, subtitles, poems, philosophy, and an opera. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Articles by Alex Zucker

What Does Victory Look Like If Not This?

By Petra Hůlová

Petra Hůlová's dystopian novel The Movement, translated from Czech by Alex Zucker, is available now from World Editions. The novel follows the narrator, a prison guard at…

Translated by Alex Zucker

The Most Dangerous Dream of All—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story

By Sergio Chejfec, Maria Cabrera, Basma Abdel Aziz & Petra Hůlová

At PEN America’s Lit Crawl Manhattan 2018, Words Without Borders and SLICE Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story authored by four international…

Translated by Heather Cleary, Mary Ann Newman, Elisabeth Jaquette & Alex Zucker

Knock ’em Dead

By Lucie Lomová

I know he's a faker, but missing the premiere . . .

Translated by Alex Zucker

Not Necessarily About Politics: Contemporary Czech Prose

Authors writing in Czech have always had plenty to say.

This Time Last Year

By Magdaléna Platzová

The older you are, the less exposure you can tolerate.

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

Multilingual

from “Disappear”

By Petra Soukupová

The leg I don’t have is what hurts.

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

from “Guardians of the Public Good”

By Petra Hůlová

Krakow in my childhood didn’t belong to anyone.

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

from “Talespinner”

By Martin Ryšavý

Bgashev’s been dead a few years now and he’s been coming to see me all this time.

Translated from Czech by Julia Sherwood & Alex Zucker

The Prodigal Father

By Tomáš Zmeškal

Myths always lie a little, to make them more impressive.

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

From “Angel”

By Jáchym Topol

Butch blinked. But it wouldn't go away. He could see it, the blood, like a red honeycomb, like a membrane, in his left eye.

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

From “I Can’t Stand Still”: An Interview with Jáchym Topol

By Tomáš Weiss

Weiss: What was your first time out of the country?Topol: My first time was in East Germany with my mom. She took my brother and me to the seaside there. That change—all of a sudden by the sea in the…

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

From “The Opportune Moment, 1855”

By Patrik Ouředník

Remake the world? Did we not learn anything from the French Revolution?

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker