Else Otten Translator Award
The Else Otten Translator Award (also known as the Else Otten Award for short ) is an award that has been presented since 2000 for the translation of an important literary work from Dutch into German. The award is named after the Dutch translator Else Otten . It is endowed with 5200 euros and is awarded by the Dutch Foundation for Literature (previously the Dutch Fund for Literature and Translation ( Nederlands Literair Productie- en Vertalingenfonds )) and the Flemish Fund for Literature ( Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren ).
The Else Otten Translator Prize is awarded every two years by an independent expert jury and presented in Berlin. The award ceremony is organized by the Berlin Literary Colloquium .
Award winners
- 2000: Gregor Seferens ( De procedure by Harry Mulisch )
- 2002: Marlene Müller-Haas ( Cherry Blood by Charlotte Mutsaers )
- 2004: Helga van Beuningen ( Under the pavement the swamp and The Court of Mercy by AF Th. Van der Heijden )
- 2006: Hanni Ehlers ( All yours from Connie Palmen )
- 2008: Waltraud Hüsmert ( The Sorrows of Belgium by Hugo Claus )
- 2010: Andreas Ecke ( It's quiet above by Gerbrand Bakker )
- 2012: Christiane Kuby ( Divine Sleep by Erwin Mortier )
- 2014: Bettina Bach ( The blue bird returns by Arjan Visser ) and Rainer Kersten ( The librarian who preferred to have dementia than at home with his wife by Dimitri Verhulst )
- 2016: Annette Wunschel (writings by Johan Huizinga , Vol. 1–3)
- 2018: Ira Wilhelm ( Die Fremde by Stefan Hertmans ; Original title: De Bekeerlinge )
See also
Web links
- Else Otten translator award on the website of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Else Otten Translator Award at Kulturpreise.de
- ^ Klaus Max Smolka: Neighbors Language. Great: Dutchists and their little subject . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 2, 2016, p. N4.