Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) 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. In 2018 she was awarded the MLA's Lois Roth Award for her translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck.[2]

Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky speaking at swissnex San Francisco on April 3, 2013
Born	July 20, 1966 Cleveland

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

• 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

1. Bio
2. "Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrM-7ATkRA Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with Susan Bernofsky and Anne Bogart