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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. More at alexjzucker.com.

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

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

The WindowsButch blinked. But it wouldn’t go away. He could see it, the blood, like a red honeycomb, like a membrane, in his left eye. Then in his right. Before, the blood had poured from the sky,…

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker

from The Opportune Moment, 1855

By Patrik Ouředník

Patrik Ouředník’s forthcoming novel imagines one of the most striking phenomena of the nineteenth century: the founding of “free” settlements in North and South America by Europeans…

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker