Damion Searls

Damion Searls is an American writer and translator.[1] 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 won numerous prizes for his translations.[2]

Searls is working on the first English-language biography of Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach test. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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