Damion Searls

Damion Searls is a translator and writer. He has translated many of Europe’s greatest writers, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, and others. Searls grew up in New York City, studied at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has received writing and translating awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, PEN Center USA, the Netherland America Foundation, the University of California, and the Austrian, Belgian, and Dutch governments.