Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize + Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York

Join us for this year's annual translation award ceremony in honor of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize and the Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York!

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This year we honor Vincent Kling for his translation of Heimito von Doderer's novel The Strudlhof Steps (New York Review Books, 2021). Established in 1996 and funded by the German government, the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded each year to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year. The prizewinning translator receives $10,000.
 
For his translation of an excerpt from Asal Dardan’s novel Betrachtungen einer Barbarin (Hoffmann und Campe, 2021), the winner of the twelfth annual Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York is Hayden Toftner. In 2010, the Goethe-Institut New York received a generous donation in memory of Frederick and Grace Gutekunst. A prize was created to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities. The prize has been supported by the Friends of Goethe New York since 2017.