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  • Anastasia Zinevich

    Anastasia Zinevich is an Odesan writer and scholar.


  • Theodore Ziolkowski

    Theodore Ziolkowski (PhD, Yale, 1957) is Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton and has been a WLT contributor (and editorial board member) for more than five decades. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, he has published more than two dozen books of his own (not including a dozen translations and edited volumes) and over 180 articles in German and English, focusing principally on German Romanticism and on the reception of classical antiquity in modern European literature.



  • Zoran Živković

    Zoran Živković (b. 1948, Belgrade, Serbia) is the author of twenty-two books of fiction published in twenty-three countries, in twenty languages. With more than one hundred foreign editions, he is one of the most translated contemporary Serbian writers. Živković’s writing was featured in the November 2011 issue of WLT.



  • Andrew Zubiri

    Andrew Zubiri (@jadz) is a Filipino writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Consequence, Atticus Review, Ninth Letter, and the Threepenny Review. His work explores identity and the tension between home and diaspora. A former global development professional, he now works in educational technology and lives in Boston.



  • Jeffrey Zuckerman

    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.



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    Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

    Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga (b. 1971, Madrid) holds a PhD in classical studies and is deputy director of culture at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, Spain. As a novelist, he is the author of a trilogy about twentieth-century Spain (Santo diablo, No cantaremos en tierra de extraños, and Escarcha), among other works. An anthology of his poems has just been published under the title Escala. Poesía 1991–2023 (see WLT, Nov. 2024, 74).



  • Vikram Zutshi

    Vikram Zutshi is a filmmaker, columnist, and photojournalist who divides his time between California, Latin America, and India. His last production, a feature documentary on the immigration crisis, was filmed along the US-Mexico border and broadcast globally. He is currently in postproduction on Darshan: The Living Art of India, exploring the ritual and social praxis of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist art in India and Nepal.



  • Rajzel Zychlinsky

    Rajzel Zychlinsky (1910–2001) was born in Gombin, Poland, and her first book of poems was published to great acclaim by the Yiddish PEN Club in Warsaw in 1936. Zychlinsky survived World War II in Tatarstan and afterward moved to Paris, New York, and finally California. Her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.



  • Gunnhild Øyehaug

    Norwegian writer Gunnhild Øyehaug has published poetry, essays, and novels, including Wait, Blink, which was adapted into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts.