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 from the queer canon (including texts by Jean Genet, Hervé Guibert, and Kev Lambert).
Zuckerman is a recipient of the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Grant, multiple Albertine Translation Grants and English PEN Translates awards, the 2020 French Voices Grand Prize, and a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. For the entirety of his work, he has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
At MacDowell, Zuckerman completed a translation of the Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi's Manger l'autre (Hungering) and began work on both 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
