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Damion Searls

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Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. He was longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize with Jon Fosse, for The Other Name: Septology I-II; he has received Guggenheim, Cullman Center, and two NEA fellowships, and the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize for Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key, the PEN Center USA Translation Award for Jon Fosse’s Aliss at the Fire, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for Uwe Johnson’s four-volume Anniversaries, among other awards. He has also edited a one-volume abridgment of Henry David Thoreau’s Journal; his own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories), The Inkblots (a history of the Rorschach Test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach, which has been translated into ten languages), and The Philosophy of Translation.

Damion Searls Books

Overstaying book cover

Overstaying

Ariane Koch
Morning and Evening book cover

Morning and Evening

Jon Fosse
A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture book cover

A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

Jon Fosse
Septology book cover

Septology

Jon Fosse
A Shining book cover

A Shining

Jon Fosse
My Men book cover

My Men

Victoria Kielland
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition book cover

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition

Rainer Maria Rilke
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories book cover

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

Damion Searls
In the Land of the Cyclops book cover

In the Land of the Cyclops

Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bambi book cover

Bambi

Felix Salten
Thank You for Not Reading book cover

Thank You for Not Reading

Dubravka Ugresic
Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings book cover

Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

Hermann Hesse
A New Name: Septology VI-VII book cover

A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse
Where You Come From book cover

Where You Come From

Sasa Stanisic
Anniversaries, Volume 2 book cover

Anniversaries, Volume 2

Uwe Johnson
Anniversaries, Volume 1 book cover

Anniversaries, Volume 1

Uwe Johnson
I is Another book cover

I is Another

Jon Fosse
Marshlands book cover

Marshlands

Andre Gide
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' book cover

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

Rainer Maria Rilke
The Other Name book cover

The Other Name

Jon Fosse
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