Susanna Roth studied Romance and Slavic philology in Zürich, Paris and Prague.
[1] In 1985, she received her doctorate from the same university based on a dissertation on the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal.
She worked as a translator and headed the Zürich East/West office of the Pro Helvetia Foundation.
[2] Roth translated more than thirty books by Czech authors into German, including Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal, Věra Linhartová, Daniela Hodrová and Božena Němcová.
[3] Roth was the recipient of two Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.