Submissions 2026
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

The following titles, all published in the USA or Canada in 2025, were submitted for consideration for this year's Wolff Translator's Prize.

Translated by Samantha Rose Hill + Genese Grill
Liveright Publishing

Hannah Arendt: What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
Translated by Tess Lewis
New Directions

Ingeborg Bachmann: The Honditsch Cross
Translated by Damion Searls
Princeton University Press

Charlotte Beradt: The Third Reich of Dreams
Translated by Stewart D. Spencer
Yale University Press

Matthias Egeler: Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld
Translated by Kurt Beals
New Directions

Jenny Erpenbeck: Things That Disappear
Translated by Rex Levang
Camden House

Theodor Fontane: Count Petöfy: A Novel of Austria-Hungary
Translated by Krishna Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Peter Handke: The Ballad of the Last Guest
Translated by Jamie Lee Searle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Kim de l'Horizon: Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
Translated by Robert Savage
Harvard University Press

Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
Translated by Ross Benjamin
Summit Books

Daniel Kehlmann: The Director
Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu
The Experiment

Sofia Kimmig: Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
Translated by Carl Skoggard
NYRB

Siegfried Kracauer: Ginster: Written By Himself
Translated by Richard Sieburth
Archipelago Books

Christian Lehnert: Wickerwork
Translated by Max Lawton
Deep Vellum

Michael Lentz: Schattenfroh
Translated by Jeffrey L. High + Elaine Chen
Camden House

Thomas Mann: Thomas Mann’s Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945: Listen, Germany!
Translated by Matthew Spencer
Sublunary Editions

Jean Paul: The Parson in Jubilee
Translated by Monika Werner
The Experiment

Thomas Ramge: Dimming the Sun: The Urgent Case for Geoengineering
Translated by Kurt Beals
Liveright Publishing

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Translated by Geoffrey Lehmann
NYRB

Rainer Maria Rilke: Fifty Poems
Translated by Mark Kanak
Contra Mundum

Rainer Maria Rilke: The Testament (& Other Texts)
Translated by Lucy Jones
Ugly Duckling Presse

Ronald M. Schernikau: SMALLTOWNNOVELLA
Translated by Robert Hughes + Corey Anderson Dansereau
Polity Press

Peter Sloterdijk: If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color
Translated by Sophie Duvernoy
NYRB

Gabriele Tergit: Effingers
Translated by Joel Scott
Duke University Press

Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume III
Translated by Michael Hofmann
NYRB

Markus Werner: The Frog in the Throat
Translated by Daniel Bowles
Polity Press

Uwe Wittstock: Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature