Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky is a leading 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. She has won numerous prizes for her translations including the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize and the 2015 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She also won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[1]
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
- The End of Days
- Visitation
Selected others
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Perpetual Motion by Paul Scheerbart
- The Magic Flute (opera libretto) by Emanuel Schikaneder
- The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
- False Friends by Uljana Wolf
- The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Celan Studies by Peter Szondi
- The Trip to Bordeaux by Ludwig Harig
- Where Europe Begins by Yoko Tawada
- Anecdotage: A Summation by Gregor von Rezzori
References
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