Translation Prize Award Ceremony

Save the date for our annual translation award doubleheader and help us celebrate both established and emerging translators from German into English.

Established in 1996 and funded by the Friends of Goethe New York, the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize honors an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year. The prizewinning translator receives $5,000 as well as a fully funded trip to the Frankfurter Buchmesse from October 7-11, 2026.
The Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York was created to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities.

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