Ross Ben­jam­in’s trans­la­tions include Friedrich Hölder­lin’s Hype­r­i­on, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlman­n’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was award­ed the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Trans­la­tor’s Prize for his ren­der­ing of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggen­heim fel­low­ship for his work on Franz Kafka’s diaries.