Schlegel-Tieck Prize

The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation prize given by the Society of Authors in London. It is named for August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck who translated Shakespeare to German in the 19th century. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000.[1]

The winner of the 2019 prize, for translations published in 2018, was Iain Galbraith for a translation of River by Esther Kinsky (Fitzcarraldo Editions).[2]

Winners

1965

• Winner: Michael Bullock for The Thirtieth Year by Ingeborg Bachmann (Andre Deutsch) and Report on Bruno by Joseph Breitbach (Jonathan Cape)

1966

• Winner: Ralph Manheim for Dog Years by Günter Grass (Secker & Warburg)

1967

• Winner: James Strachey for The Works of Sigmund Freud (Hogarth Press)

1968

• Winner: Henry Collins for History of the International by Julius Braunthal (Nelson)

1969

• Winner: Leila Vennewitz for The End of a Mission by Heinrich Böll (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

1970

• Winner: Eric Mosbacher for Society without the Father by Alexander Mitscherlich (Tavistock)

1971

• Winner: Ewald Osers for The Scorched Earth by Paul Carell (Harrap)

1972

• Winner: Richard Barry for The Brutal Takeover by Kurt von Schuschnigg (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

1973

• Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Love and Hate by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (Methuen)

1974

• Winner: Geoffrey Skelton for Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas (Secker & Warburg)

1975

• Winner: John Bowden for Judaism and Hellenism by Martin Hengel (SCM Press)

1976

• Winner: Marian Jackson (deceased) for War of Illusions by Fritz Fischer (Chatto & Windus)

1977

• Winners: Charles Kessler for Wallenstein: His Life Narrated by Golo Mann (Andre Deutsch); Ralph Manheim for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (Methuen)

1978

• Winner: Michael Hamburger for German Poetry 1910-1975 (Carcanet)

1979

• Winners: Ralph Manheim for Die Flunder (The Flounder) by Günter Grass (Secker & Warburg); John Brownjohn for People and Politics by Willy Brandt (HarperCollins)

1980

• Winners: Janet Seligman for The English House by Herman Muthesius (Granada); David Harvey & Hazel Harvey for Sophocles by Karl Reinhardt (Blackwell)

1981

• Winners: Michael Hamburger for Poems by Paul Celan (Carcanet); Edward Quinn for Does God Exist? by Hans Küng (HarperCollins)

1982

• Winner: Eric Mosbacher for The Wolf by Eric Zimen (Souvenir)

1983

• Winners: Paul Falla & A.J. Ryder for A History of European Integration, 1945-47 by Walter Lipgens (Clarendon Press); Arnold Pomerans for A Small Yes and a Big No by George Grosz (Allison & Busby)

1984

• Winner: Patricia Crampton for Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer (Dent)

1985

• Winner: John Bowden for The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World by Henning Graf Reventlow (SCM Press)

1986

• Winners: Christopher Middleton for The Spectacle at the Tower by Gert Hofmann (Carcanet); Allan Blunden for Pro and Contra Wagner by Thomas Mann (Faber and Faber)

1987

• Winner: Anthea Bell for The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann (Viking Press)

1988

• Winners: Ralph Manheim for The Rat by Günter Grass (Secker & Warburg); Michael Hofmann for Der Kontrabaß (The Double-Bass) by Patrick Süskind (Hamish Hamilton)

1989

• Winners: Quintin Hoare for The Town Park & Other Stories by Herman Grab (Verso); Peter Tegel for The Snake Tree by Uwe Timm (Picador)

1990

• Winner: David McLintock for Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Böll (Secker & Warburg)

1991

• Winners: John E. Woods for The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr (Chatto & Windus); Hugh Young for The Story of the Last Thought by Edgar Hilsenrath (Penguin)

1992

• Winner: Geoffrey Skelton for The Training Ground by Siegfried Lenz (Methuen)

1993

• Winners: John Brownjohn for The Swedish Cavaliers by Leo Perutz (Harvill Secker); John Brownjohn for Infanta by Bodo Kirchhoff (Harvill Secker); Michael Hofmann for Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen (Hamish Hamilton)

1994

• Winner: Krishna Winston for Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth (Constable)

1995

• Winners: Ronald Speirs for Political Writings of Max Weber (CUP); William Yuill for The Making of Europe: The Enlightenment by Ulrich im Hof (Blackwell)

1996

• Winners: David McLintock for Extinction by Thomas Bernhardt (Quartet); David McLintock for Caesar by Christian Meier (HarperCollins)

1997

• Winner: Shaun Whiteside for Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger (Headline Review)

1998

• Winner: Mike Mitchell for Letters Back to Ancient China by Herbert Rosendörfer (Dedalus)
• Runner-up: J.A. Underwood for Das Schloss (The Castle) by Franz Kafka (Penguin)

1999

• Winner: John Brownjohn for Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig (Harvill Secker)

2000

• Winner: Joyce Crick for The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (OUP)
• Runner-up: Patrick Bridgwater for Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (Menard Press)

2001

• Winner: Krishna Winston for Too Far Afield by Günter Grass (Faber and Faber)
• Runner-up: Anthea Bell for Vienna Passion by Lilian Faschinger (Headline Review)

2002

• Winner: Anthea Bell for Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Hamish Hamilton)
• Runner-up: John Felstiner for The Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton)

2003

• Winner: Anthea Bell for Rain by Karen Duve (Bloomsbury)
• Runner-up: Michael Hofmann for Luck by Gert Hofmann (Harvill Secker)

2004

• Winner: Martin Chalmers for The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945-59 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

2005

• Winner: Karen Leeder for Selected Poems by Evelyn Schlag (Carcanet)
• Runner-up: Michael Hofmann for The Stalin Organ by Gert Ledig (Granta)

2006

• Winner: Philip Boehm for A Woman in Berlin by anonymous (Virago Press)
• Runner-up: Caroline Mustill for A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich (Yale University Press)

2007

• Winner: Sally-Ann Spencer for The Swarm by Frank Schätzing (Hodder)
• Runner-up: Anthea Bell for Vienna by Eva Menasse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

2008

• Winner: Ian Fairley for Snow Part by Paul Celan (Carcanet)
• Runner-up: Anthea Bell for Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press)

2009

• Winner: Anthea Bell for Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press)
• Runner-up: Michael Hofmann for The Seventh Well by Fred Wander (Granta)

2010

• Winner: Breon Mitchell for Die Blechtrommel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (Harvill Secker)
• Runner-up: Allan Blunden for The Return of the State? by Erhard Eppler (Forum Press)

2011

• Winner: Damion Searls for Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (Hesperus Press)
• Runner-up: Michael Hofmann for Angina Days: Selected Poems by Günter Eich (Princeton University Press)

2012

• Winner: Vincent Kling for a translation of Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Commended: Ross Benjamin for a translation of Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger (Norton)

2013

• Winner: Ian Crockatt for a translation of Pure Contradiction - Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (Arc Publications)
• Commended: Jamie Bulloch for a translation of Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe (Peirene Press)

2014

• Winner: Jamie Bulloch for a translation of The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbecke (Peirene Press)
• Commended: Anthea Bell for a translation of In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge (Graywolf Press)

2015

• Winner: Susan Bernofsky for a translation of The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (Portobello Books)
• Commended: Shaun Whiteside for a translation of The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky (Bloomsbury)

2016

• Winner: Iain Galbraith for a translation of Self-Portrait With A Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner (Arc Publications)
• Commended: Anthea Bell for a translation of All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (Granta)

2017

• Winner: Allan Blunden for a translation of Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada (Scribe)
• Commended: Katy Derbyshire for a translation of Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

2018

• Winner: Tony Crawford for a translation of Wonder Beyond Belief by Navid Kermani (Polity Press)[2]
• Runner-up: Tess Lewis for a translation of Kruso by Lutz Seiler (Scribe)
• Short-listed:
  • Susan Bernofsky for a translation of Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (Granta)
  • Jen Calleja for a translation of Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel (Peirene Press)
  • Stefan Tobler for a translation of The Old King in His Exile by Arno Geiger (And Other Stories)

2019

• Winner. Iain Galbraith for a translation of River by Esther Kinsky (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Runner Up: Karen Leeder for a translation of Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig (Seagull Books)
• Shortlisted:
  • Margot Bettauer Dembo for a translation of The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers (Virago Press)
  • Katy Derbyshire for a translation of Gentleman Jack by Angela Steidele (Serpent's Tail)
  • Simon Pare for a translation of The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr (Seagull Books)
  • Damion Searls for a translation of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books)

References

1. , Society of Authors
2. , Society of Authors