Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Recipients

• 1996 John E. Woods for Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and Arno Schmidt's Nobodaddy's Children
• 1997 Leila Vennewitz for Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar
• 1998 John Brownjohn for Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us
• 1999 Joel Agee for Heinrich von Kleist's play Penthesilea
• 2000 Michael Hofmann for Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion
• 2001 Krishna Winston for Günter Grass's novel Too Far Afield
• 2002 Anthea Bell for W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz
• 2003 Margot Bettauer Dembo for Judith Hermann's Summerhouse, later
• 2004 Breon Mitchell for Uwe Timm’s novel Morenga
• 2005 Michael Henry Heim for Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
• 2006 Susan Bernofsky for Jenny Erpenbeck’s The Old Child & Other Stories
• 2007 Peter Constantine for Benjamin Lebert's The Bird is a Raven
• 2008 David Dollenmayer for ’ Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment
• 2009 John Hargraves for Michael Krüger's The Executor – A Comedy of Letters
• 2010 Ross Benjamin for Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov
• 2011 Jean M. Snook for Gert Jonke's The Distant Sound
• 2012 Burton Pike for 's Isle of the Dead
• 2013 Philip Boehm for Gregor von Rezzori's An Ermine in Czernopol
• 2014 Shelley Frisch for Reiner Stach's Kafka: The Years of Insight
• 2015 Catherine Schelbert for Hugo Ball's Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
• 2016 Daniel Bowles for Christian Kracht's Imperium
• 2017 Charlotte Collins for Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life
• 2018 for Wolfgang Hilbig's Old Rendering Plant
• 2019 Damion Searls for Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl