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Professor Susan Bernofsky

Susan Bernofsky is the prizewinning translator of seven works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Uljana Wolf, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and others. Her biography of Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small , appeared in 2021. A Guggenheim, Cullman and Berlin Prize fellow, she teaches literary translation at the Columbia University School of the Arts.