Born in Mauritius, Ananda Devi is one of the leading francophone writers of the Indian Ocean. Among her many awards are the 2024 Neustadt Prize and the Prix de la langue fran aise, and she is the author of novels, short stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Her books available in English translation are Indian Tango, Eve Out of Her Ruins, The Living Days, and When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from the French of books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Herv Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and, for the entirety of his work, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.