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

    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...
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Damion Searls, Marjorie Perloff

    Paperback, 2025

    Appearing a century after its first English-language publication, this newly translated edition of Wittgenstein’s masterpiece reveals a work of exceptional philosophical and literary genius