Susanne Lange was born in Berlin in 1964.

Lange has received the Helmun M. Braem prize for the translation of Palinura de México of Fernando del Paso, as well as the Prize of the Minister of Culture of Bavaria and the Academy of Fine Arts. She has translated the work of Octavio Paz, José Manuel Prieto, Luis Cernuda, Abilio Estévez, Federico García Lorca, Juan Rulfo, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.