Discussion: Reading like a translator

Acclaimed translator Damion Searls visits the University of Richmond for a discussion titled “Reading Like a Translator.” Searls is a translator from Norwegian, German, French, Dutch, and Faroese and a writer in English. He has translated books by Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann, Elfriede Jelinek, Hermann Hesse, André Gide, Patrick Modiano, and Jon Fosse, as well as many other classic modern writers. His book The Philosophy of Translation was published by Yale University Press in 2024.