Night as It Falls | Jakuta Alikavazovic | Granta

Night as It Falls

Jakuta Alikavazovic

Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

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

Jakuta Alikavazovic

Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. Her debut novel, Corps Volatils, won the Prix Goncourt in 2008 for Best First Novel. She has translated works by Ben Lerner, David Foster Wallace and Anna Burns into French. She lives in Paris and writes a regular column for the daily newspaper Libération.

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Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Jeffrey Zuckerman was born in 1987 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. For his translations of francophone authors, including Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, he has won numerous awards and was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in New York City.

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