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Susan Bernofsky’s literary translations include seven works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Gregor von Rezzori, Uljana Wolf and others. She chairs the PEN Translation Committee and is co-editor (with Esther Allen) of the 2013 Columbia University Press anthology In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means. She received the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize and the 2012 Calw Hermann Hesse Translation Prize as well as awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the PEN Translation Fund, the NEA, the NEH, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Lannan Foundation. Her translation of Jeremias G ...more

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It’s been a year, or rather several years in fact. From the moment I first began working on my new translation of Thomas Mann’s epochal The Magic Mountain in the fall of 2019, a pandemic has come and (sort of) gone, my father died, I published a biography of Robert Walser and a translation of a Yoko Tawada novel that’s (not so) secretly a love letter to Paul Celan, taught in Germany

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Average rating: 3.87 · 34,289 ratings · 5,300 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, David Cronenberg (Introduction), Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 1,404,243 ratings — published 1915 — 5884 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 870,032 ratings — published 1922 — 924 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 10,468 ratings — published 2015 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser 4.38 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landmarks (Two Lines World Writing in Translation, 20) by Susan Bernofsky (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Editor), Pierre Mertens (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Child: & Other Stories by Susan Bernofsky, Jenny Erpenbeck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calque New Translations Issue 2 by Susan Bernofsky, Bela Shayvich, Jill Timbers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE CLAIRVOYANT 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Unknown(2013-05-28) by Susan Bernofsky, Esther Allen (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Extremely talkative, as one often sees with people who live in isolation and then turn loquacious in company and under the influence of alcohol,”
― Susan Bernofsky, Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

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“Therese Breitbach in distant Germany was an ideal correspondent, given how little risk there was they would ever meet. He could enjoy con- structing a charming self-portrait with impunity.”
― Susan Bernofsky, Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

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“Walser later told Carl Seelig: “I am immediately wary of writers who excel at plot and claim practically the whole world for their characters. Everyday things are beautiful and rich enough that we can coax poetic sparks from them.”
― Susan Bernofsky, Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

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