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    Susan Bernofsky

    For New Directions, Susan Bernofsky has translated Yoko Tawada’s Where Europe Begins, The Naked Eye, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), eight titles by the great Swiss-German modernist Robert Walser, and five books by Jenny Erpenbeck, including The End of Days (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, and teaches at Columbia University, where she also directs the literary translation program.

    Susan Bernofsky

    For New Directions, Susan Bernofsky has translated Yoko Tawada’s Where Europe Begins, The Naked Eye, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), eight titles by the great Swiss-German modernist Robert Walser, and five books by Jenny Erpenbeck, including The End of Days (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, and teaches at Columbia University, where she also directs the literary translation program.

    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”...

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