about
Susan Bernofsky is a leading American translator of modernist and contemporary German-language literature. She directs the program Literary Translation at Columbia in the MFA Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
She blogs about literary translation at www.translationista.com, and has written a biography of the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small, forthcoming in May 2021 from Yale University Press. She is currently at work on a new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain for W.W. Norton.
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