Jeffrey Zuckerman

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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.

A World of One’s Own: A Tribute to Ananda Devi
By Fabienne Kanor
January 2025
Fabienne Kanor
Photo by Shevaun Williams As the juror who nominated Devi for the Neustadt Prize, Fabienne Kanor made a passionate case for her work when the jury convened on the University of Oklahoma campus…
An Impossible Return by Caroline Laurent
By Caroline Laurent

Caroline Laurent
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 368 pages. LAST YEAR, PAINTINGS by the Chagossian artist Clément Siatous, exhibited at the Caudan Arts Centre in Port Louis, Mauritius, showed the mai…
Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine
By Antoine Volodine

Antoine Volodine
Rochester, New York. Open Letter Books. 2017. 500 pages.Life or death? Dream or reality? Antoine Volodine destroys these binaries with the force of a nuclear meltdown, much like those that (in th…
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
By Ananda Devi

Ananda Devi
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 160 pages.When tourists visit the island of Mauritius, located off the east coast of Africa, they see gorgeous beaches and luxury hotels and not the hopelessness and…