Jeffrey Zuckerman

© Carl de Souza

© Carl de Souza

 

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and he was awarded the French Voices Grand Prize for his translation of Pina. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He currently lives in New York City.

 

BOOKS

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Pina
Pina
$18.00

By Titaua Peu

Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Introduction by Rajiv Mohabir

Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize

Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize

From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism and held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family’s traumas.

Paperback ISBN: 9781632061553
Publication date: Aug 16, 2022

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
$22.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020

Silence of the Chagos
Silence of the Chagos
$17.99

by Shenaz Patel

Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Based on the true, still-unfolding story of the expelled Chagossians’ fight for their homeland, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice.

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062345
Publication date: Nov 5, 2019

2022 Women in Translation Bundle
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2022 Women in Translation Bundle
$39.00 $53.00

Three women writers in translation, three stories about family and the lasting⁠—at times bizarre⁠—ways they can contour our lives, from Tahiti, South Korea, and France.

New Women in Translation Bundle
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New Women in Translation Bundle
$39.00 $54.99

Three women writers in translation, three hypnotic journeys down the rabbit hole of history, memory, home, and coming of age in exile, from China, Mauritius, and the former Yugoslavia.

 
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Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators
Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators

For Women in Translation Month, we asked our favorite authors and translators share a glimpse into their reading lives with rapid-fire picks for favorite women writers in translation.

Read Shenaz Patel's Searing Afterword for "Silence of the Chagos"
Read Shenaz Patel's Searing Afterword for "Silence of the Chagos"

Mauritian author Shenaz Patel brings the story of the displaced Chagossian people to life with a keen journalist’s eye and fiery prose, gracefully translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Here, we’re honored to share with you her forceful afterword, which provides all of the history you need to understand their struggle and the “past that is not yet past.”