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Damion Searls

Portrait of translator Damion Searls

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Damion Searls

United States

Damion Searls is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and the author of The Inkblots, a history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator. He is the translator of 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Jon Fosse.

Articles by Damion Searls

The opening text of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

L. Wittgenstein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

By Damion Searls

The substance of Wittgenstein’s theories in the Tractatus is intimately tied to a vision of language that, among other problems, tends to produce bad translations.

Little Check Marks on Our Names

By Saša Stanišić

Winner of the German Book Prize, Saša Stanišić's Where You Come From will be out from Tin House next week. Translated by Damion Searls, this autofictional work explores…

Translated by Damion Searls

Vitality Enough: Translating “Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl”

By Damion Searls

Damion Searls won the 2019 Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his monumental translation of Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (New York Review Books). Published…

First Read—From “Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl”

The following is excerpted from Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, translated from the German by Damion Searls and forthcoming with New York Review Books.…

Translated by Damion Searls