Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature. He is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Fulbright scholar. He has won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Michael Maar's Speak Nabokov. He has also translated: Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin Close to Jedenew by Kevin Vennemann Job by Joseph Roth The Frequencies by Clemens J. Setz (National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship) Indigo by Clemens J. Setz the complete diaries of Franz KafkaHe has written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, etc. He lives in Nyack, New York.
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