Guidelines for Publishers

Publishers are invited to submit six copies of a published translation from the German language into English. The deadline for submissions is set for end of January.

The translation must be published (not only distributed) in the US in the year prior to the submission deadline date.

Entries may be fiction or non-fiction and may include: novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poetry, biographies, essays and correspondences.

A five-member jury will select the winning translation.

The selected translator of the will be invited, with travel and accommodations paid, to the award ceremony in Chicago. It will be hosted by the German Consul General of Chicago and will take place on June 13, 2011.