Joachim Neugroschel

Joachim Neugroschel is the winner of three PEN Translation Awards, and the 1994 French-American Translation Prize. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in New York City. After graduating from Columbia University with a degree in English and Comparative Literature, he moved to Paris and then Berlin. He returned to New York six years later, where his career as a translator flourished. He has translated the works of great writers from the past Moliere, Maupasssant, Proust, Kafka, Mann, and present-day authors such as Tahar Ben Jelloun. His credits include two hundred titles. Joachim Neugroschel is well known for his translation of works of Yiddish literature. Neugroschel's Yiddish titles include “Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult,” “The Shtetl” (Overlook Press, 1997), “No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present” (Norton and Co., 2004), and “The Shadows of Berlin” (City Lights, 2005), a collection of stories by Dovid Bergelson, considered to be one of the best Soviet Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.