Tess Lewis

Tess Lewis’s translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Montaigne, Ingeborg Bachmann, Lutz Seiler, and Anne Weber.  Her essays and reviews have appeared in journals and newspapers including The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal, Partisan Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Miami Herald, Bookforum, World Literature Today, and The Hudson Review. 

Tess was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.  She was a 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a 2023-24 Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris.  In 2023, She received the Friedrich Ulfers Prize, which recognizes those who ‘champion the advancement of German-language literature in the US.’

Tess is a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin.  She has served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle and as Co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee. Since 2003 she has been an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review.  

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