Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator Award

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The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize ( English Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize ) is a prize for literary translations from German into English, which was first awarded in 1996. The prize, financed by the German government and endowed with 10,000 euros, was awarded by the Goethe Institute in Chicago until 2014 and has since been awarded annually in June by the Goethe Institute in New York City . The award goes to outstanding translations published in the USA in the previous year. In addition to the prize money, the winner will be given a two-month stay at the Literary Colloquium Berlin .

The award honors the memory of Kurt Wolff , who, supported by his wife Helen, was one of Germany's most important publishers in the 1920s. Forced to emigrate by the National Socialists in 1941 , he founded the Pantheon Books publishing house in New York , whose program focused on translations from German and European literature.

Award winners

year translator English title author German title publishing company
2019 Damion Searls Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl Uwe Johnson Anniversaries. From the life of Gesine Cresspahl New York Review Books
2018 Isabel Fargo Cole Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig Old cover shop Two Lines Press
2017 Charlotte Collins A whole life Robert Seethaler A whole life Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2016 Daniel Bowles Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas Christian Kracht imperium Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2015 Catherine Schelbert Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor Hugo Ball Flametti: or of the dandysm of the poor Wakefield Press
2014 Shelley Fresh Kafka: The Years of Insight Pure sting Kafka - The Years of Knowledge Princeton University Press
2013 Philip Boehm To Ermine in Czernopol Gregory of Rezzori An ermine in Chernopol New York Review Books
2012 Burton Pike Isle of the Dead Gerhard Meier Isle of the Dead Dalkey Archive Press
2011 Jean M. Snook The Distand Sound Gert Jonke The distant sound Dalkey Archive Press
2010 Ross Benjamin Speak, Nabokov Michael Maar Solus Rex. The The Beautiful Evil World of Vladimir Nabokov Verso
2009 John Hargraves The Executor - A Comedy of Letters Michael Kruger Turin Comedy Harcourt
2008 David Dollenmeyer Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment Moses Rosary Childhood. Fragment of an autobiography Syracuse University Press
2007 Peter Constantine The Bird is a Raven Benjamin Lebert The bird is a raven stud
2006 Susan Bernofsky The Old Child & Other Stories Jenny Erpenbeck Story of the old child New Directions
2005 Michael Henry Heim Death in Venus Thomas Mann The death in venice Ecco
2004 Breon Mitchell Morenga Uwe Timm Morenga New Directions
2003 Margot Bettauer Dembo Summerhouse, later Judith Hermann Summer house, later Ecco
2002 Anthea Bell Austerlitz WG Sebald Austerlitz Random House
2001 Krishna Winston Too Far Afield Günter Grass A wide field Harcourt
2000 Michael Hofmann rebellion Joseph Roth The rebellion St. Martin's Press
1999 Joel Agee Penthesilia Heinrich von Kleist Penthesilea HarperCollins
1998 John Brownjohn Heroes Like Us
The Karnau Tapes 		Thomas Brussig
Marcel Beyer 		Heroes like us
flying foxes 		Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Harcourt Brace & Company
1997 Leila Vennewitz Jacob the Liar Jurek Becker Jacob the Liar Arcade Publishing
1996 John E. Woods The Magic Mountain
Nobodaddy's Children 		Thomas Mann
Arno Schmidt 		The magic Mountain

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