Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky | |
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 Susan Bernofsky speaking at swissnex San Francisco on April 3, 2013 | |
| Born | July 20, 1966 Cleveland |
Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world, translating many of his books and writing his biography. She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Yoko Tawada. Her prizes for translation include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, the 2012 Calw Hermann Hesse Prize, the 2015 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the 2015 Schlegel-Tieck Prize. She was also selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[1] In 2017 she won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for her translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada. In 2018 she was awarded the MLA's Lois Roth Award for her translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck.[2]
She teaches at Columbia University.
Books
- Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (Yale University Press, 2021)
- In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means (co-editor with Esther Allen, Columbia University Press, 2013)
Translations
- Looking at Pictures
- The Walk
- Berlin Stories
- The Assistant
- Microscripts
- The Tanners
- The Robber
- Masquerade and Other Stories
- The Old Child and Other Stories
- The Book of Words
- Visitation
- The End of Days
- Go, Went, Gone
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear
- The Naked Eye
- Where Europe Begins
Selected others
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Perpetual Motion by Paul Scheerbart
- The Magic Flute (Mozart opera libretto) by Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned by director Isaac Mizrahi for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis[3]
- The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
- False Friends by Uljana Wolf
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Celan Studies by Peter Szondi
- The Trip to Bordeaux by Ludwig Harig
- Anecdotage: A Summation by Gregor von Rezzori
References
- ^ Bio
- ^ "Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrM-7ATkRA Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with Susan Bernofsky and Anne Bogart
