The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is an annual literary prize named for the German–American publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff "honoring an outstanding literary translation from German into English", published in the United States of America the previous year. The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000.
The prize was established in 1996 and is funded by the German Federal Office. It was managed by the Goethe-Institut Chicago until 2014. Since 2015, the prize has been administered by the Goethe-Institut in New York. Awardees YearTranslatorAuthorTitleRef.1996Nobodaddy's Children1997Jacob the Liar1998Heroes Like Us1999Penthesilea2000Rebellion2001Too Far Afield2002Austerlitz2003Summerhouse, Later 2004Morenga2005Death in Venice200620072008Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment 20092010Speak, Nabokov20112012Isle of the Dead20132014Kafka: The Years of Insight2015Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor2016Imperium20172018Old Rendering Plant2019Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl2020202120222024De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century2025Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 12026Schattenfroh
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