Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Guidelines for Publishers

American publishers are invited to submit five copies of a published translation from the German language into English to the following address:

Goethe-Institut New York
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Attn: Dean Whiteside
30 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2024. Physical copies of your submitted translation must be received by this date. Please provide us with your contact information in the online submission form so that we may anticipate delivery of your submission and follow up with you as necessary.

The translation must have been published (not only distributed) in Canada or the US in 2023. Entries may be fiction or non-fiction and may include: novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poetry, biographies, essays and correspondences. Translators awarded the prize in the last seven years are disqualified from consideration this year.

All submitted titles will be listed on the Goethe-Institut website. A three-member jury will select a short list of three to four nominated titles, with the winning translation to be announced by Summer 2024.

The winning translator and publishing house will be invited to the award ceremony, to take place at the Goethe-Institut New York in Autumn 2024.

Contact:
Dean Whiteside
dean.whiteside@goethe.de