Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a prize-winning translator of fifty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. Liveright published his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet in 2020.

Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a prize-winning translator of fifty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. Liveright published his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet in 2020.

Books by Damion Searls

  • Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

    Damion Searls, Thomas Mann

    Hardback, 2023

    Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories—including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a...
  • Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

    Damion Searls, Thomas Mann

    E Book

    Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories—including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a...
  • Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

    Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Damion Searls

    Hardback, 2020

    Nearly a century after the publication of Rilke’s inspirational work, the missing letters of the young poet himself finally appear in this canonical edition.
  • Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

    Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Damion Searls

    E Book, 2020

    Nearly a century after the publication of Rilke’s inspirational work, the missing letters of the young poet himself finally appear in this canonical edition.
  • Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition

    Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton, Julia Reidhead, Damion Searls

    Hardback, 2023

    A gorgeous reissue of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of Norton’s 100th anniversary
  • Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition

    Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton, Julia Reidhead, Damion Searls

    E Book

    A gorgeous reissue of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of Norton’s 100th anniversary
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Damion Searls, Marjorie Perloff

    Hardback, 2024

    Appearing a century after its first English-language publication, this newly translated en face edition of Wittgenstein’s masterpiece reveals a work of exceptional philosophical and literary genius...
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Damion Searls, Marjorie Perloff

    E Book

    Appearing a century after its first English-language publication, this newly translated en face edition of Wittgenstein’s masterpiece reveals a work of exceptional philosophical and literary genius...
  • Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

    Hermann Hesse, Damion Searls, Volker Michels

    Hardback, 2022

    *Winner of the American Translators Association Frederick Ungar Award*

    An elegant collection of Hermann Hesse’s essays, poems, and passages on the subject of trees and nature, accompanied by...

  • Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

    Thomas Mann, Damion Searls

    Paperback, 2024

    Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories—including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a...