Japan Foundation Translator Award
The Japan Foundation Translator Prize is a literary prize that has been awarded since 1999 by the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne , the German representative of the Japan Foundation , for outstanding translations from Japanese . The prize is endowed with 5000 euros and was initially awarded annually and now for two consecutive years for a literary translation and every third year for the translation of a non-fiction book. The award is made by a jury made up of Japanese and German experts.
Previous winners were:
- 2019 Sabine Mangold for Yōko Ogawa : Tender laments and Kazuaki Takano : 13 steps
- 2016 Michael Stein for Sei Shônagon : Pillow book = Makura no Sôshi
- 2014 Heike Patzschke for Toshiki Okada : The time that remains for us
- 2011 Thomas Eggenberg for Sō Aono : Mother where are you and Banana Yoshimoto : Feather dress
- 2008 Nora Bierich for Kenzaburō Ōe : Tagame: Berlin - Tokyo
- 2006 Katja Caßing for Keigo Higashino : Mord am See and Arimasa Ōsawa : The Shinjuku Shark: Sodom and Gomorrah
- 2004 Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler for Yōko Ogawa : Swimming pool in the rain
- 2003 Peter Pantzer for The Iwakura Mission: Kume Kunitake's log book about the visit to the Japanese special embassy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1873
- 2002 Annelie Ortmanns for Banana Yoshimoto : Amrita and Sleeping Beauty: three stories from the night and Kenzaburō Ōe : Green Tree in Flames
- 2001 Ekkehard May for Shômon: the gate of the hermitage to the banana tree : Haiku by Bashô's master students Kikaku, Kyorai, Ransetsu
- 2000 Wolfgang Seifert and Uwe Hohmann for Hiroshi Okumura : Japan and its companies: Introduction to current structural problems
- 1999 Otto Putz for Natsume Sōseki : Me, the cat and Kenzaburō Ōe : Tear off the buds
Web links
- Official website of the Japanese Cultural Institute
- The Japan Foundation Translation Prize , entry at the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ
- The Japan Foundation Translator Award, entry on Kulturpreise.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Mangold receives Japan Foundation Translator Award , report on Buchmarkt.de of October 14, 2019, accessed on October 24, 2019.