Damion Searls
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, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, and Nescio. He has received numerous grants and fellowships for his translations.
Searls published 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.
Damion Searls lives in Brooklyn, New York City.Selected works
Author
- Everything You Say Is True: A Travelogue
- What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going
- The Inkblots
Translator/editor
- Alfred Döblin, Bright Magic: Stories
- Christa Wolf, City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
- Clemens Berger, Angel of the Poor, a comedy
- Dubravka Ugrešić, Thank You For Not Reading
- Dubravka Ugrešić, Lend Me Your Character
- Elfriede Jelinek, Her Not All Her
- Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key
- Hans Keilson, Life Goes On
- Henry David Thoreau, The Journal
- Hermann Hesse, Demian
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Letters to Felician
- Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire
- Jon Fosse, Melancholy
- Marcel Proust and John Ruskin, On Reading
- Nescio, Amsterdam Stories
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams
- Robert Walser, A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
- Susanne Kippenberger, Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families
- Uwe Johnson, A Trip to Klagenfurt with Youth in an Austrian Town by Ingeborg Bachmann
- Mirjam Pressler with Gerti Elias, Anne Frank's Family: The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From
- André Gide, Marshlands
- Uwe Johnson, Island Stories: Writings from England
- Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
