Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky directs the program in literary translation at Columbia University. She has translated Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, and is currently working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain for W.W. Norton. Her biography of Robert Walser is forthcoming from Yale UP in spring 2021.
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Events
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future Finale at Columbia University: Translating for a World on Fire, with Maria Dahvana Headley and Emily Wilson, moderated by Susan Bernofsky
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Wed, Sep 23, 2020
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future: “Lightning in a Bottle: A Case Study of Publishing Literary Translation,” featuring Yoko Tawada with Margaret Mitsutani, Susan Bernofsky, Barbara Epler, Jeffrey Yang & Rivka Galchen, moderated by Stephen Snyder
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Tue, Aug 4, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
***seminar*** & Presentation
Translation Seminar: Susan Bernofsky
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Wed, Feb 10, 2016
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM