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Jeffrey Zuckerman

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. In 2020, he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He was born in 1987 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives in New York City.

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Fiction | Issue 164 padlock
Fiction | Issue 164 padlock

The Tide

Adèle Rosenfeld

‘In my ears were muted thumps, the drumbeat of my pulse.’

Fiction by Adèle Rosenfeld, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Édouard’s Sixteen

Kevin Lambert

‘Laurence’s busy pre-mourning himself and his lover; he knows their thing’s got an end date, it’s not far off now.’

A story by Kevin Lambert, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Night as It Falls

Jakuta Alikavazovic

‘There wasn’t much money. His father had been blunt: the classes were fine, the rest wasn’t.’

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