Translator Award from the City of Munich

The Translator's Prize of the City of Munich has been awarded every three years since 2000, alternating with the Literature Prize of the City of Munich and the Journalism Prize of the City of Munich as an award for a complete work . The prize money is currently 10,000 euros.

The award recognizes the quality of the work and the special merits in conveying foreign language literature. The prize is primarily intended to take into account translation services in the areas of fiction and essay writing , but also in the area of non-fiction with literary quality .

The prerequisite is that the winners live in Munich or in the Munich region.

Award winners

• 2000: Herbert Schlüter
• 2003: Rosemarie Tietze
• 2006: Burkhart Kroeber
• 2009: Rudolf Hermstein
• 2012: Dagmar Ploetz
• 2015: Melanie Walz
• 2018: Dirk van Gunsteren

Web links

• Translator Award from the City of Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Privileged translators? ( Memento from December 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 9, 2007