Christophe Bourdin Author

Christophe Bourdin was born in Épinal, France in 1964. As a young literature student in Paris, he learned that was HIV-positive and began to write a journal. Over the next several years, this text would become the autobiographical novel, The Thread, which was first published in 1994. Highly acclaimed, it was republished in 1996, and sections from the novel were read on the radio and on stage for World AIDS Day that year. Bourdin died in 1997, aged 32. Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi and Shenaz Patel. He has won the French Voices Grand Prize and 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.