Awards and funds

The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded every year in June for an outstanding literary translation from German into English that was published in the USA the previous year. Financed by the German government, the prize has been awarded by the Goethe-Institut New York since 2015.

The Goethe-Institut Paris, the DGLFLF, the DLF and the Sorbonne are jointly awarding a prize for literary translations from German into French. [DE/FR]

The Henrike Grohs Art Award is presented every two years to an African artist. The award was founded by the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family in memory of Henrike Grohs, the former director of the Goethe-Institut in Abidjan.

The science and technology company Merck and the Goethe-Institut have been awarding the renowned Kakehashi Literature Prize every two years since 2013. The prize honors Japanese translators for their translation of a German work into Japanese. [DE/JA]

The  Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation is presented by the Society of Authors and the Goethe-Institut London every two years. This translation prize is aimed at new and emerging translators, including those whose work has not yet been published.

In 2010, the Goethe-Institut New York received a generous donation in memory of Frederick and Grace Gutekunst. A prize was created to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities.