About: Ross Benjamin

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Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He has won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov. He also received a commendation from the judges of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Fulbright scholar. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll (2017) was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. He is the son of attorney Jeff Benjamin and LCSW Betsy Benjamin.

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  • Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He has won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov. He also received a commendation from the judges of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Fulbright scholar. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll (2017) was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Benjamin has written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, etc. He lives in Nyack, New York. The Times of London referred to Benjamin as a "Comic Virtuoso" for his work on Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann. He is the son of attorney Jeff Benjamin and LCSW Betsy Benjamin. (en)
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  • Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He has won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov. He also received a commendation from the judges of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Fulbright scholar. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll (2017) was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. He is the son of attorney Jeff Benjamin and LCSW Betsy Benjamin. (en)
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