Past Recipients
Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York

  • 2024

    Elizabeth Raab

    for her translation of an excerpt from Julia Schoch’s Das Liebespaar des Jahrhunderts (dtv, 2023)

  • 2023

    Betsy Carter

    for her translation of an excerpt from Simone Scharbert’s novel Rosa in Grau. Eine Heimsuchung (edition AZUR im Verlag Voland & Quist, 2022)

  • 2022

    Hayden Toftner

    for his translation of an excerpt from Asal Dardan’s novel Betrachtungen einer Barbarin (Hoffmann und Campe, 2021)

  • 2021

    Jennifer Jenson

    for her translation of an excerpt from Elsa Koester’s Couscous mit Zimt (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2020)

  • 2020

    Duncan Lien

    for his translation of a selection from Ich bin Özlem by Dilek Güngör (Verbrecher Verlag, 2019)

  • 2019

    Erin Palombi

    for her translation of a selection from Keinland by Jana Hensel (Wallstein, 2017)

  • 2018

    Nick Andrews

    for his translation of a selection from Selbstbildnis mit Geschirrtuch by Terézia Mora (Luchterhand, 2016)

  • 2017

    Amanda Olson

    for her translation of a selection from Weil wir längst woanders sind by Rasha Khayat (DuMont Buchverlag, 2016)

  • 2016

    Laura Caton

    for her translation of a selection from Drohnenland by Tom Hillenbrand (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2014)

  • 2015

    Sophie Duvernoy

    for her translation of a selection from Eisenkinder by Sabine Rennefanz (Luchterhand, 2013)

  • 2014

    Elizabeth Lauffer

    for her translation of a selection from Gib jedem seinen eigenen Tod by Veit Heinchen (Zsolnay, 2001)

  • 2013

    Alta Price

    for her translation of a selection from Bugatti taucht auf by Dea Loher (Wallstein, 2012)

  • 2012

    Daniel Clausen

    for his translation of a selection from Roman unserer Kindheit by Georg Klein (Rowohlt, 2010)

  • 2011

    Karí Driscoll

    for his translation of a selection from Was davor geschah by Martin Mosebach (Hanser, 2010)