translations

Recipient of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Susan Bernofsky specializes in modernist and contemporary German-language literature.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, foreword by David Cronenberg

(New York: Norton, 2014)
Kafka's classic black comedy of nightmarish transformation.
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Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

(New York: New Directions and London: Portobello, 2016)
Three generations of polar bears tell their human stories
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The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck

(New York: New Directions and London: Portobello, 2014).
A tale of many forking paths.
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Microscripts by Robert Walser

(New York: Christine Burgin/New Directions, 2012)
Paperback edition with art by Maira Kalman.
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Siddhartha  by Hermann Hesse, with Translator’s Preface,

Foreword by Tom Robbins (New York, Modern Library, 2006).
The classic tale of a young man searching for enlightenment.
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