Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is a writer and the award-winning translator of works by Robert Walser, Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and many others. Her book, Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her most recent translation is Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada. She runs the program in literary translation at Columbia University and is currently working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain for W.W. Norton.