Damion Searls is an American writer and translator. He grew up in New York and studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in translating literary works from Western European languages such as German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch. Among the authors he has translated are Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, Heike B. Görtemaker, and Nescio. He has received numerous grants and fellowships for his translations.[1]
Searls published The Inkblots, the first English-language biography of Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach test, in 2017. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl.[2]
In April 2022, the English translation by Searls of Jon Fosse's novel A New Name: Septology VI-VII was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.[3]
Searls lives in Brooklyn, New York City.
^Author website
^"Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize: Prizewinner 2019". Goethe-Institut New York. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
^Knight, Lucy (7 April 2022). "International Booker prize shortlist delivers 'awe and exhilaration'". The Guardian.
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(London: Jonathan Cape, 1980) Une jeunesse (1981). Young Once, trans. DamionSearls (New York Review Books, 2016). Memory Lane (1981). With drawings by...
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Michiel Heyns Red Dog Buys: 'n grensroman Pushkin Press Jon Fosse Norway DamionSearls The Other Name: Septology I – II Det andre namnet – Septologien I –...
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Schoolboy's Diary (New York Review Books Classics, 2013), translated by DamionSearls, introduction by Ben Lerner, ISBN 9781590176726 Looking at Pictures...
edition Author Jon Fosse Original title Morgon og kveld Translator DamionSearls Country Norway Language Norwegian (Nynorsk) Publisher Det Norske Samlaget...
"Death in Venice"; "Man and Dog". 2023: New Selected Stories (trans. DamionSearls). Includes: "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow"; "A Day in the Life...
Freud (2010). City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, trans. DamionSearls (2013). August (2012). Trans. Katy Derbyshire (2014). Nachruf auf Lebende...
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(4): 11–13. Mair, Roswitha. Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde : a biography. Translated from the German by DamionSearls. Chicago: U Chicago Press....
OL 27210583M. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation (translated by DamionSearls, with a foreword by Marjorie Perloff) (Liveright, 2024) ISBN 978-1-324-09243-8...
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