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Jessica Cohen

Bio

Jessica Cohen is a literary translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose, poetry, and other creative work. She shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. Her translations include works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram, as well as Golden Globe-winning director Ari Folman. She is a past board member of the American Literary Translators Association and has served as a judge for the National Translation Award.

Jessica Cohen Books

Happy New Years

Maya Arad

Autocorrect

Etgar Keret

Scorpion Dance

Shifra Horn

The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad

Professor Schiff's Guilt

Agur Schiff

Three

D. A. Mishani

More Than I Love My Life

David Grossman

The Drive

Yair Assulin

Further Up the Path

Daniel Oz

And the Bride Closed the Door

Ronit Matalon

Dear Zealots

Amos Oz

The Diamond Setter

Moshe Sakal

All the Rivers

Dorit Rabinyan

A Horse Walks into a Bar

David Grossman

Isra-Isle

Nava Semel

The Lost Lamb

Jessica Cohen

Bliss

Ronit Matalon

Eden

Yael Hedaya

To the End of the Land

David Grossman

Writing in the Dark

David Grossman