"My Moi: Translation as Autobiography"

Jeffrey Zuckerman (he & il) is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and a winner of the French Voices Grand Prize. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Sponsored by: The Department of World Languages & Literatures, The Department of Romance Studies, The BU Poetry Reading Series, The Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Center for European Studies, LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, The BU Arts Initiative

When 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Friday, March 1, 2024
Building CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 306
Fees Free
Speakers Jeffrey Zuckerman