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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.

Articles by Damion Searls

Little Check Marks on Our Names

By Saša Stanišiç

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”

By Uwe Johnson

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

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Damion Searls

Damion Searls

Articles by Damion Searls

Little Check Marks on Our Names

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

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