Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is an annual literary prize honoring an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year.^[1] The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000.00 and a stay at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB).^[1] The prize was established in 1996 and is administered by the Goethe-Institut, Chicago, and is funded by the German government.^[1]

Prize recipients

• 2011 Jean M. Snook for Gert Jonke's The Distant Sound
• 2010 Ross Benjamin for Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov
• 2009 John Hargraves for Michael Krüger's The Executor – A Comedy of Letters (Turiner Komödie)
• 2008 David Dollenmayer for Moses Rosenkranz’ Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment (Kindheit. Fragment einer Autobiographie)
• 2007 Peter Constantine for Benjamin Lebert's The Bird is a Raven (Der Vogel ist ein Rabe)
• 2006 Susan Bernofsky for Jenny Erpenbeck’s The Old Child & Other Stories (Geschichte vom alten Kind)
• 2005 Michael Henry Heim for Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
• 2004 Breon Mitchell for Uwe Timm’s novel Morenga
• 2003 Margot Bettauer Dembo for Judith Hermann's Summerhouse, later (Sommerhaus, Später)
• 2002 Anthea Bell for W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz
• 2001 Krishna Winston for Günther Grass's novel Too Far Afield
• 2000 Michael Hofmann for Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion (Die Rebellion)
• 1999 Joel Agee for Heinrich von Kleist's play Penthesilea
• 1998 John Brownjohn for Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us (Helden wie wir)
• 1997 Leila Vennewitz for Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner)
• 1996 John E. Woods for Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) and Arno Schmidt's Nobodaddy's Children (Nobodaddy's Kinder)

Notes

External links

• Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, official site.