Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Winners

The annual Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded each spring to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English publis ...more

Winners

	Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig 3.99 avg rating — 214 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Isabel Fargo Cole (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ein ganzes Leben by Robert Seethaler 3.95 avg rating — 16,492 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Charlotte Collins (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperium by Christian Kracht 3.69 avg rating — 3,360 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Daniel Bowles (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor by Hugo Ball 3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Catherine Schelbert (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 4.60 avg rating — 200 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Shelley Frisch (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori 3.97 avg rating — 265 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Philip Boehm (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isle of the Dead by Gerhard Meier 3.66 avg rating — 41 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Burton Pike (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Distant Sound by Gert Jonke 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Jean M. Snook (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak, Nabokov by Michael Maar 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Ross Benjamin (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Executor: A Comedy of Letters by Michael Krüger 3.22 avg rating — 37 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for John Hargraves (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment by Moses Rosenkranz 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for David B. Dollenmayer (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird is a Raven by Benjamin Lebert 3.12 avg rating — 423 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Peter Constantine (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Child and Other Stories by Susan Bernofsky 3.64 avg rating — 182 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Susan Bernofsky (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 3.71 avg rating — 51,347 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Michael Henry Heim (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morenga by Uwe Timm 3.67 avg rating — 215 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Breon Mitchell (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sommerhaus, später by Judith Hermann 3.64 avg rating — 2,030 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Margot Bettauer Dembo (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 3.99 avg rating — 20,545 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Anthea Bell (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Far Afield by Günter Grass 3.25 avg rating — 232 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Krishna Winston (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Leviathan by Joseph Roth 3.83 avg rating — 638 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Michael Hofmann (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama by Heinrich von Kleist 3.79 avg rating — 839 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Joel Agee (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flughunde by Marcel Beyer 3.77 avg rating — 319 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for John Brownjohn (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Helden wie wir by Thomas Brussig 3.37 avg rating — 550 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for John Brownjohn (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker 3.83 avg rating — 2,730 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Leila Vennewitz (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobodaddy's Children: Scenes from the Life of a Faun, Brand's Heath, Dark Mirrors by Arno Schmidt 4.20 avg rating — 144 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for John E. Woods (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 4.13 avg rating — 45,938 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for John E. Woods (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben 4.07 avg rating — 65,970 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Nominee (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Marriage (New York Review Books Classics) by Jakob Wassermann 3.48 avg rating — 160 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser 3.81 avg rating — 243 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Nominee (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich by Fritz Trümpi 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Nominee (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europe since 1989: A History by Philipp Ther 3.57 avg rating — 144 ratings Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Nominee (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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