Past Recipients
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

for De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century by Max Czollek (Restless Books)

No prize awarded

für The Strudlhof Steps von Heimito von Doderer (New York Review Books)
 

for An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (New Directions)

for The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke (New Directions)

for Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books)

for Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig (Two Lines Press)

for A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

for Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

for Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor by Hugo Ball (Wakefield Press)

for Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach (Princeton University Press)

for An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori (New York Review Books)

for Isle of the Dead by Gerhard Meier (Dalkey Archive Press)

for The Distand Sound by Gert Jonke (Dalkey Archive Press)

for Speak, Nabokov by Michael Maar (Verso)

for The Executor – A Comedy of Letters by Michael Krüger (Harcourt)

for Childhood. An Autobiographical Fragment by Moses Rosenkranz (Syracuse University Press)

for The Bird is a Raven by Benjamin Lebert (Knopf)

for The Old Child & Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions)

for Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Ecco)

for Morenga by Uwe Timm (New Directions)

for Summerhouse, later by Judith Hermann (Ecco)

for Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Random House)

for Too Far Afield by Günter Grass (Harcourt)

for Rebellion by Joseph Roth (St. Martin's Press)

for Penthesilia by Heinrich von Kleist (HarperCollins)

for Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 

for Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker (Arcade Publishing)

for The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Knopf) and Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt (Dalkey Archive Press)