Tags: GermanyThe Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation has announced the winners of the three annual prizes awarded to distinguished literary translators. The main Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize, worth €15,000, is being awarded to Bernhard Robben in appreciation...
Tags: GermanyThe Christoph Martin Wieland-Preis is awarded every second year by the ‘Circle of Friends for the Promotion of Literary and ScientificTranslation’, founded by Helmut M. Braem. This year’s award is for the translation of an opus of world literature and...
Tags: GermanyThe International Literature Award ‘Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2013’, now in its fifth year, goes to Teju Cole for his novel Open City (Suhrkamp 2012), while the prize for the first German translation of the novel goes to Christine Richter-Nilsson. The...
Tags: GermanyThe 2013 Straelen Translation Award has been awarded to Nikolaus Stingl for his lifework of translations from English, in particular for his translation Der Tunnel (‘The Tunnel’), a novel by William Gass. The € 25,000 award, the highest endowed...
Tags: GermanyFrom 25-30 August 2013 the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. will organize the fourth edition of a workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people. The workshop is aimed especially at...
