The following titles, all published in the USA or Canada in 2020, were submitted for consideration for this year's prize.
Submissions 2021
Publishers in the USA and Canada are invited to submit six copies of a published translation from the German language into English for consideration. The translation must have been published (not only distributed) in the USA or Canada in 2020.
Guidelines for Publishers
Boehm’s sensitive and versatile translation, making admirable choices of both tone and vocabulary throughout, captures all the sparkle and slanting energy of this fresh, original, and very modern novel.
Kurt Wolff, joined later by his wife Helen, was one of the most outstanding and innovative publishers in Germany of the 1920s. Helen and Kurt Wolff immigrated to New York in 1941, and founded Pantheon Books, a publishing house devoted mainly to the translation of German and other European literature.
About Helen & Kurt Wolff
Dean Whiteside
Translation Grant Program Liaison
dean.whiteside@goethe.de
Goethe-Institut New York
30 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
