Submissions 2025
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

The following titles, all published in the USA or Canada in 2024, were submitted for consideration for this year's Wolff Translator's Prize.

Translated by Peter Filkins
New Directions

Elias Canetti:
The Book Against Death
Translated by Jane Billinghurst
Greystone Books

Christine Figgener:
My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth
Translated by Wieland Hoban
Polity Press

Markus Gabriel:
Fictions
Translated by Nick Somers
Polity Press

Ines Geipel:
Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany
Translated by Michael Hofmann
New Directions

Günter Grass:
The Living Statue: A Legend
Translated by Daniel Steuer
Polity Press

Byung-Chul Han:
The Crisis of Narration
Translated by Krishna Winston
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Peter Handke:
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons
Translated by Gitta Honegger
Yale University Press

Elfriede Jelinek:
The Children of the Dead
Translated by Tony Crawford
Polity Press

Navid Kermani:
What is Possible Now: 33 Political Situations
Translated by Caroline Schmidt
New York Review Books

Esther Kinsky:
Seeing Further
Translated by Daniel Bowles
Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company

Christian Kracht:
Eurotrash
Translated by Paul Reitter
Princeton University Press

Karl Marx:
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Translated by Nika Knight
Fantagraphics

Mia Oberländer:
Anna
Translated by Valentine A. Pakis
Polity Press

Hartmut Rosa:
Democracy Needs Religion
Translated by Tess Lewis
New York Review Books

Lutz Seiler:
Star 111
Translated by Corey A. Dansereau and Gill Zimmermann
Stanford University Press

Peter Sloterdijk:
Out of the World
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
New Directions

Yoko Tawada:
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Translated by Jane Billinghurst
Greystone Books

Carina Wohlleben:
A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down—and Save the Planet