Jeffrey Zuckerman’s translation of Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins won the CLMP Firecracker Prize, and The Living Days was a finalist for the French-American Foundation translation prize. He is currently translating Devi’s Eat the Other and The Laugh of the Goddesses for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
Photo of Port-Louis by joël BEHR / Stock.adobe.comIn this essay by Devi’s principal English-language translator, he asks: When will we stop reducing Devi to the labels of Mauritian writer, Indian Ocea…