Tess Lewis’s translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Montaigne, Ingeborg Bachmann, Lutz Seiler, and Anne Weber. She has been awarded grants from PEN and the NEA, the Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize, and the PEN Translation Prize. A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she was awarded the 2023 Friedrich Ulfers Prize, which recognizes those who ‘champion the advancement of German-language literature in the US.’ Since 2003, she has been an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. She has written essays on European Literature for a number of journals and newspapers including The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, Partisan Review, The American Scholar, the Wall Street Journal and Bookforum.