Author, Critic, Translator
Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist and translator whose reviews, translations and essays on literary and cultural subjects have appeared frequently in numerous publications, most frequently in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, where he is editor-at-large. He has also been a columnist for BBC Culture, New York, Harpers and the New York Times Book Review. Mendelsohn’s books include “The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity”; “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award, among other honors; and “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” an NPR Best Book of the Year. His essays and criticism have been collected in three volumes, most recently “Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to ‘Game of Thrones.’” His other honors include the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize for Prose Style, and the Malaparte Prize (Italy). In 2022, he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France. In April 2025, his new translation of the “Odyssey” will be published by the University of Chicago Press.