Steven
Rendall has translated more than fifty books from French and German.
His translation of Marcel Bénabou's novel Jacob, Menahem, and
Mimoun: A Family Epic won the Jewish Book Council's Sandra Brand and
Arik Weintraub Award in 1999, and his translation of Harald
Weinrich's Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting won the
MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in 2005. His translations of selected
poems from Harald Weinrich's Das
Leben und Lesen der Tiere: Ein Bestiarium recently appeared in
Words Without Borders . (2009)