Susan Bernofsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Susan Bernofsky

American translator

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1966

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of German-language literature.
She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world.
She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck.
Her prizes for translation include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, the 2015 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the 2015 Schlegel-Tieck Prize.
She was also selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.
In 2017 she won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for her translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada.
In 2018 she was awarded the MLA's Lois Roth Award for her translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck.She teaches at Columbia University.