Joyce Zonana

Joyce Zonana is a writer and translator. She is the author of a memoir, Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile’s Journey, and her writing has been published in The Hudson Review, Signs, and Meridians, among other publications. She received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Tobie Nathan’s Ce pays qui te ressemble (A Land Like You) and the Global Humanities Translation Prize for her translation of Jóusè d’Arbaud’s La Bèstio dóu Vacarés (The Beast of Vaccarès).

  • Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them? Give them the gift of choice with a New York Review Books Gift Card.

    Gift Cards 

  • A membership for yourself or as a gift for a special reader will promise a year of good reading.

    Join NYRB Classics Book Club 

  • Is there a book that you’d like to see back in print, or that you think we should consider for one of our series? Let us know!

    Tell us about it