Alex Zucker

Alex Zucker has translated novels by the Czech authors Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, Jáchym Topol, J. R. Pick, Magdaléna Platzová, Tomáš Zmeškal, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik Ouředník, and Miloslava Holubová.

He has also Englished stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.

His translation of Petra Hůlová’s Three Plastic Rooms and Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop received Writing in Translation awards from English PEN, and in 2010 he won the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association for his translation of Petra Hůlová’s debut novel, All This Belongs to Me.

Alex is a past cochair of the Translation Committee at PEN America, and his collaboration with the Authors Guild has thus far resulted in the first national survey of working conditions for literary translators in the U.S., the creation of a Translators Group within the Guild, and the Guild’s first model contract for literary translation.

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