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Please join World Poetry and the New School Creative Writing Department for Colloquy #17: Translating Queerness, featuring Kira Josefsson, Julia Sanches, and Jeffrey Zuckerman. The translators will each give a reading, followed by a Q&A facilitated by Colloquy curator C. Francis Fisher. We’ll be exploring how translators bring local cultures of queerness into the American vernacular, in what way a queer translator’s personal identity might impact their work in translation, how we can characterize the work of creating an international queer canon in English, and more. Welcome remarks by J. Mae Barizo, Chair of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. World Poetry’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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Jeffrey Zuckerman is a literary translator from French. He translates works from mainland France, from Mauritius (including novels by Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza), and from the queer canon (including texts by Jean Genet, Hervé Guibert, and Kev Lambert).
Zuckerman is a recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Grant, multiple Albertine Translation Grants and English PEN Translates awards, the 2020 French Voices Grand Prize, and a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. For the entirety of his work, he has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
