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Jeffrey Zuckerman

a color portrait of Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Contributor

Jeffrey Zuckerman

United States

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a literary translator from French. He translates works from mainland France, from Mauritius (including novels by Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza), and the queer canon (including texts by Jean Genet, Hervé Guibert, and Kev Lambert).

Articles by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash.

The Hearing-Aid Brigade

By Adèle Rosenfeld

Suddenly the world felt incredibly sad. What battle to fight, and for who, if each battle bore the seed of its own destruction?

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Palm trees along the shoreline in Huahine, Tahiti

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Two Birthdays

For weeks, Ma didn’t feel a shred of warmth for the baby.

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Carl de Souza on Mauritian History, Multilingualism, and the Events that Inspired “Kaya Days”

By Jeffrey Zuckerman

In the weeks after riots shook the seemingly tranquil island of Mauritius in 1999, the novelist Carl de Souza began writing a short, dense text that would become a nearly real-time depiction of that unreal…

So Long, Luise

By Céline Minard

This night sealed, consecrated, my future as a writer absolutely.

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

A spoon with stringy bits of meat sits in a stew

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Kari Disan

It hadn’t been a gastronomic experience so much as an obstacle course.

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman