Jeffrey Zuckerman

Jeffrey Zuckerman was born in the Midwest and works in New York as an editor and a translator from French. His translations include Ananda Devi’s Eve out of Her Ruins and The Living Days as well as Antoine Volodine’s Radiant Terminus, Thomas Clerc's Interior, and Jean Genet's The Criminal Child; he has also contributed shorter texts and translations to The New Republic, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and VICE.

After graduating with honors from Yale University, he worked for various agents and editors in book publishing, was a judge for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, and is now Digital Editor at Music & Literature Magazine. He was a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his work on the complete stories of Hervé Guibert.

‘An extraordinary novel, beautifully translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman.’
— Natasha Soobramanien, author of Genie and Paul, on Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi

‘It is a tribute to the translator, Jeffrey Zuckerman, that the language of the book flows in an unhindered style even while the half-formed lives of the characters in this intriguing, highly unusual novel confound all assumptions.’
— The Irish Times, on The Living Days by Ananda Devi