Steven
Rendall is a freelance translator from French and German with more
than fifty book translations to his credit. He lives in southwestern France
and visits Berlin whenever he can. 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 . (2010)