Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch and a writer in English. He has translated many of Europe's greatest writers, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, and Nescio, edited a new abridged edition of Thoreau's Journal, and produced a lost work of Melville's.

Searls grew up in New York City, studied German philosophy at Harvard and American literature at UC Berkeley, and has received writing and translating awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, the Netherland America Foundation, the University of California, and the Austrian, Belgian, and Dutch governments. He lives with his wife and son in San Francisco.

His Googleganger, Damion Searls, co-wrote The Korean Electronics Industry, is on Facebook, and has patents. Patents!

He has had one chess game published in the newspaper.

 

CONTACT

Email: damion@damionsearls.com
Literary agent: None currently; please email with queries.

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Painting: Danielle Peterson Searls, 2003, after Nicolas de Staël

Web design: Deric Carner