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Damion Searls

Damion Searls
Damion Searls studied philosophy at Harvard and is a prominent translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, including of books by Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Rilke, Proust, Victoria Kielland, Saša Stanišić, Jelinek, Mann, Modiano, and Jon Fosse. His own writing includes fiction, poetry, and a widely translated biography of the creator of the Rorschach test.


Why Close Reading is An Essential Part of Literary Translation

Damion Searls on What Emerging and Established Translators Can Learn From a Careful Examination of Texts
October 29, 2024  By Damion Searls
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Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

Damion Searls on Translating Letters to a Young Poet
(and the Young Poet's Letters)
November 30, 2020  By Damion Searls
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On the Eerie, Enduring Power of the Rorschach Test

How a 100-Year-Old Test Still Reveals More Than We Think
February 22, 2018  By Damion Searls
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