Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky speaking at swissnex San Francisco on April 3, 2013

Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world. She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck. Her prizes for translation include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation 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.

She teaches at Columbia University.

Translations

Robert Walser

  • Looking at Pictures
  • The Walk
  • Berlin Stories
  • The Assistant
  • Microscripts
  • The Tanners
  • The Robber
  • Masquerade and Other Stories

Jenny Erpenbeck

  • The Old Child and Other Stories
  • The Book of Words
  • Visitation
  • The End of Days
  • Go, Went, Gone

Yoko Tawada

  • Memoirs of a Polar Bear
  • The Naked Eye
  • Where Europe Begins

Selected others

References

  1. ↑ Bio
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrM-7ATkRA Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with Susan Bernofsky and Anne Bogart
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