Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation

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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, whose literary translation work has not yet been published in print form.

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The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation

The winner receives an award of EUR 1,000 and attendance at the Leipzig Book Fair, as well as the International Translators' meeting organised by the Literary Colloquium Berlin.

The competition is open to emerging translators of literature who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for a minimum of three years.

The deadline for entries was 11 August, 2025.

The details can be found at the Society of Authors website


The winner of the Award for 2023 was Rob Myatt for his translation of an excerpt from the novel Hund, Wolf, Schakal by Behzad Karim Khani (Hanser Berlin,2022).
The runner-up was Fiona Graham.

Further Information:


prizes@societyofauthors.org
Website: Society of Authors

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