Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Books by Susan Bernofsky

  • The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky

    Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky, David Cronenberg

    Paperback, 2014

  • The Metamorphosis: A Norton Critical Edition

    Franz Kafka, Mark M. Anderson, Susan Bernofsky

    First Edition, Paperback, 2015

    “This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others...
  • Looking at Pictures

    Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis, Christopher Middleton

    Hardback, 2015

    A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
  • The Tanners

    Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, W. G. Sebald

    Paperback, 2009

    "The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice
  • The Naked Eye

    Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2009

    “Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times
  • Visitation

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2017

    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
  • The Walk

    Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2012

    Robert Walser's preferred alternate version of his classic tale. In a new translation by Susan Bernofsky, The Walk is an elegant consideration of walking and the philosophical musings it engenders....
  • Microscripts

    Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Maira Kalman

    Paperback, 2012

    Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
  • Memoirs of a Polar Bear

    Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2016

    The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears
  • Go, Went, Gone

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2017

    New York Times Notable Book 2018;Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018; Lois Roth Award Winner

    An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin”...