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

Books by Susan Bernofsky

Visitation
Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky
E Book, 2010
A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
The Tanners
Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, W. G. Sebald
E Book, 2012
"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice
The Naked Eye
Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky
E Book, 2013
“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky
E Book, 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
E Book, 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”...
The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky, David Cronenberg
E Book, 2014
“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...
The Metamorphosis: A Norton Critical Edition
Franz Kafka, Mark M. Anderson, Susan Bernofsky
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“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...
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky
E Book
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky
Paperback, 2024
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award