Jes­si­ca Cohen shared the 2017 Man Book­er Inter­na­tion­al Prize with author David Gross­man for her trans­la­tion of A Horse Walks into a Bar. She has trans­lat­ed works by Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Mat­alon, Nir Baram, and others.