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Conversation / Gegenüber Talks

November 26, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain with Susan Bernofsky & Veronika Fuechtner, sponsored by Goethe Institute Boston

Filed Under: Conversations, Interviews, Public Appearances Tagged With: Thomas Mann, Translation

Review / Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions

November 19, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

“Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism,” a review of Morten Høi Jensen’s The Master of Contradictions, published in The Nation

Filed Under: Articles and Essays, Publications, Reviews Tagged With: Thomas Mann, Translation

Review / Han Kang, We Do Not Part

September 16, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

“Best Friends Forever,” a review of Han Kang’s We Do Not Part (translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris), published in Korean Literature Now

Filed Under: Articles and Essays, Reviews Tagged With: Translation

Walser Biography Featured on Deutschlandfunk

July 25, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

The German translation of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser is a featured book on Deutschlandfunk

Filed Under: Interviews, Public Appearances, Reviews Tagged With: Biography, Robert Walser

Interview / Slow Travel Berlin

July 23, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

Interviewed with Katy Derbyshire by Kendra Atleework for Slow Travel Berlin

Filed Under: Conversations, Interviews, Public Appearances, Uncategorized Tagged With: Translation

Walser Biography Now Out in German

July 2, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser is now out in German from Suhrkamp Verlag, in a translation by Michael Adrian. Here’s a first review in Süddeutsche Zeitung

Filed Under: Books, Publications Tagged With: Biography, Robert Walser

Tim

June 28, 2025 by Susan Bernofsky

Translation of “Tim” by Sharon Dodua Otoo (co-translated with Sharon Dodua Otoo and Tyrell Otoo), published in The Baffler

Filed Under: Publications, Translations Tagged With: Sharon Dodua Otoo, Translation

Longlist, Barrios Book in Translation Prize

December 19, 2024 by Susan Bernofsky

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada has been named a semi-finalist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize awarded by the National Book Critics Circle

Filed Under: Honors, Prizes, Translations Tagged With: Translation, Yoko Tawada

Interview / taz

December 3, 2024 by Susan Bernofsky

Interviewed by Simone Schmollack for taz (die tageszeitung)

Filed Under: Conversations, Interviews, Public Appearances Tagged With: Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Jenny Erpenbeck, Robert Walser, Thomas Mann, Translation, Yoko Tawada

Review / Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium

October 29, 2024 by Susan Bernofsky

“Last Resort,” a review of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), published in BookForum

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Translation

Resin and Wood

October 15, 2024 by Susan Bernofsky

Translation of “Resin and Wood” by Monique Schwitter, published in AGNI

Filed Under: Publications, Translations Tagged With: Monique Schwitter, Translation

Review / Fatma Aydemir, Djinns

October 4, 2024 by Susan Bernofsky

“The Pronoun for a Lost Child,” review of Fatma Aydemir’s Djinns (translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi), published in The Baffler

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Translation

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