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, 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.

Contents

• Translating kafka susan bernofsky jay cantor glenn kurtz and peter mendelsund
• Susan bernofsky reads from her novel at the global salon new orleans in the greene space
• Robert Walser
• Jenny Erpenbeck
• Yoko Tawada
• Selected others
• References

She teaches at Columbia University.