Damion Searls

Damion Searls is an American author and translator. He is famous for his book The Inkblots, the first English-language biography of Hermann Rorschach. Damion spent his childhood in New York and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Havard University. Besides writing, Damion specializes in translating literary works from languages such as Norwegian, German, French, and Dutch to English. Some authors he has translated include Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, Jon Fosse and Kurt Schwitters.In 2019, Damion won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translators Prize. Damion’s English translation of Jon Fosse’s book, A New Name: Septology VI-VII, was selected for the International Booker Prize 2022. Damion lives in Brooklyn, New York City.