Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is the translator of Yoko Towada’s novel Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel (New Directions, 2024) and works by Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, and Hermann Hesse. Her book Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (Yale University Press, 2021) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. A Guggenheim, Cullman, and Berlin Prize fellow, she teaches literary translation at the Columbia University School of the Arts. She is working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain for W.W. Norton. (updated 10/2024)