About Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky is a writer and a leading translator of modernist and contemporary German-language literature into English. She directs the program in Literary Translation in the MFA Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
A Guggenheim, Cullman Center, Leon Levy Center for Biography, and Berlin Prize fellow, she has recently completed a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in early 2027.