Jeffrey Zuckerman is a French translator born in St. Louis and living in New York. His work centers on contemporary fiction from mainland France and Mauritius—including Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza—as well as texts of the queer canon—including Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert.
In addition to winning a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and the French Voices Grand Prize, he has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
At MacDowell, Zuckerman worked on the translation of the Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi's Manger l'autre (Hungering), from French to English. Devi received the 2024 Neustadt Prize, often nicknamed the "American Nobel," on basis of her earlier novel, Ève de ses décombres (Eve Out of Her Ruins), in Zuckerman's translation. He also began work on Devi's Le Rire des déesses (The Laugh of the Goddesses), and the Palestinian writer Karim Kattan's L'Éden à l'aube (Eden at Dawn), for which Zuckerman has been awarded a NEA Translation Fellowship.
Portrait by Tianyi Zhang
