Simon Leser is the 2026-2027 NYU Public Humanities Fellow at CLMP and a Ph.D. candidate in the French department at NYU. He is the translator of two novels from French, Faraway the Southern Sky (2024) and Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us (2021), both written by Joseph Andras and published by Verso. His work has garnered him a nomination for Society of Authors’s First Translation Prize, and has been supported by NYU’s Center for the Humanities and PEN America, among others.
