About the Author

Ananda Devi was born in 1957 in Mauritius, noted for its confluence of diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic identities. She has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry, and was featured at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York in 2015. She has won multiple literary awards, including the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (2014), the Prix Mokanda (2012), the Prix Louis-Guilloux (2010) and the Prix RFO du livre (2006). Devi was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2010.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is an award-winning American translator based in New York who has translated Marie Darrieussecq and Antoine Volodine among others. In 2016 he was awarded a PEN/Heim grant for his translation of The Complete Stories of Hervé Guibert.