5.30 pm (BST) / 6.30 pm (CEST)
Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University)
Susan Bernofsky is Professor of Writing in the Faculty of Arts at Columbia University. She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (Yale, 2021), and has translated more than twenty books including three novels and four collections of short prose by the Swiss-German author Robert Walser, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Hesse’s Siddhartha. Her translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel The End of Days (2014) won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, the Ungar Award for Literary Translation, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is currently working on a new translation of Thomas Mann’s monumental novel The Magic Mountain for W.W. Norton.
This lecture will take place as a hybrid event at the German Historical Institute London and online via Zoom. In order to attend this event, please register via the ICLS website to take part in person or online.