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Ross Benjamin is an American actor and assistant director, known for Heels, Harry's Law and Tracey Takes On. He is the son of Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, and has been married to Dr. Elizabeth Robinson since 2006.
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Ross Benjamin is an American translator of German literature and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He has translated works by Franz Kafka, Daniel Kehlmann, Michael Maar and others, and won several awards and prizes.
Ross Benjamin was born on March 23, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Heels (2021), Harry's Law (2011) and Tracey Takes On... (1996).
Jan 12, 2023 · Thanks to a blistering new translation by acclaimed translator and writer Ross Benjamin, the NC-17 Diaries of Franz Kafka are, for the first time, available to the English-speaking world.
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Jan 11, 2023 · Watch Ross Benjamin and Merve Emre discuss his new translation of The Diaries of Franz Kafka, published by Pantheon/Schocken. Learn about the challenges and insights of translating Kafka's intimate and literary reflections.
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"Thank goodness Ross Benjamin (who also Englished Kehlmann's 2016 novella You Should Have Left, soon to be a film with Kevin Bacon) got the translation gig. He's a comic virtuoso, aping the clotted complexities of court etiquette, there applying nursery words to convey the narrowness of peasant life, and hitting now and again on rhythms that ...
Ross Benjamin is a literary translator who has published a new, uncensored edition of Franz Kafka's diaries in English. The diaries reveal Kafka's inner life, literary experiments, and struggles with sex, politics, illness, and being Jewish.
