Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Past Prizewinners 2023 No prize awarded 2022 Vincent Kling for The Strudlhof Steps by Heimito von Doderer (New York Review Books) 2021 Jackie Smith for An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (New Directions) 2020 Philip Boehm for The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke (New Directions) 2019 Damion Searls for Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books) 2018 Isabel Fargo Cole for Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig (Two Lines Press) 2017 Charlotte Collins for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2016 Daniel Bowles for Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2015 Catherine Schelbert for Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor by Hugo Ball (Wakefield Press) 2014 Shelley Frisch for Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach (Princeton University Press) 2013 Philip Boehm for An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori (New York Review Books) 2012 Burton Pike for Isle of the Dead by Gerhard Meier (Dalkey Archive Press) 2011 Jean M. Snook for The Distand Sound by Gert Jonke (Dalkey Archive Press) 2010 Ross Benjamin for Speak, Nabokov by Michael Maar (Verso) 2009 John Hargraves for The Executor – A Comedy of Letters by Michael Krüger (Harcourt) 2008 David Dollenmeyer for Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment by Moses Rosenkranz (Syracuse University Press) 2007 Peter Constantine for The Bird is a Raven by Benjamin Lebert (Knopf) 2006 Susan Bernofsky for The Old Child & Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) 2005 Michael Henry Heim for Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Ecco) 2004 Breon Mitchell for Morenga by Uwe Timm (New Directions) 2003 Margot Bettauer Dembo for Summerhouse, later by Judith Hermann (Ecco) 2002 Anthea Bell for Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Random House) 2001 Krishna Winston for Too Far Afield by Günter Grass (Harcourt) 2000 Michael Hofmann for Rebellion by Joseph Roth (St. Martin's Press) 1999 Joel Agee for Penthesilia by Heinrich von Kleist (HarperCollins) 1998 John Brownjohn for Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1997 Leila Vennewitz for Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker (Arcade Publishing) 1996 John E. Woods for The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Knopf) and Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt (Dalkey Archive Press) Past Prize Recipient Jury Statements Past Prize Recipient Jury Statements(DOCX, 84 KB) Back