Damion Searls

Finalist, 2022 National Book Awards
Longlist, 2022 National Book Awards

Damion Searls is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and the author of The Inkblots, a history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator.
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A New Name: Septology VI-VII

book cover for Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
ISBN 9781945492570 Transit Books

Translated from the Norwegian. Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. More about this book >

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Where You Come From

book cover Saša Stanišić, Where You Come From
ISBN 9781951142759 Tin House Books

Translated from the German. In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. More about this book >

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Damion Searls

Damion Searls is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and the author of The Inkblots, a history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator.

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