Anne Babi Jowager (Grossdruck) by Jeremias Gotthelf

Albert Bitzius (1797-1854), writing as Jeremias Gotthelf, was a Swiss pastor and author of novels, novellas, short stories, and nonfiction, who used his writing to express his reforming concerns in the fields of education and the fate of the poor. The author assumed the name of the story's protagonist after the success of his first novel, Die Bauernspiegel or Lebensgeschichte von Jeremias Gotthelf: Von ihm selbst beschrieben (The Peasants' Mirror; or, The Life History of Jeremias Gotthelf: Described by Himself; 1836). The Black Spider, Ulric, the Farm Servant, and The Tale of an Alpine Valley are among his notable works that have been translated into English. Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori, and others, as well as six books by Robert Walser. She is the current chair of the PEN Translation Committee and teaches at Columbia University's Writing Program, where she is also the director of the Graduate Translation Program. She is now working on a biography of Walser.