Jon Cho-Polizzi

Jon Cho-Polizzi is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan and an award-winning translator of contemporary German-language literature. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, after studying translation, history, and literature in Heidelberg and Santa Cruz. His translation of Fatma Aydemir’s Djinns received the 2025 British Society of Authors’ Schlegel-Tieck Prize and was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; his translation of Max Czollek’s De-Integrate received the 2024 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Jon’s translation of Ralph Tharayil’s Roll Back the Mountains is forthcoming with Seagull Books.