His previous translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s
Hyperion, Kevin Vennemann’s
Close to Jedenew, Joseph Roth’s
Job, and Clemens J. Setz’s
Indigo. He was awarded a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Translation, the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s
Speak, Nabokov, and a commendation from the judges of the 2012 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger’s
Funeral for a Dog. His literary criticism has appeared in
The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, The Nation, and other publications. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and is a graduate of Vassar College.
Photograph: Lauren Benjamin