The Internationale Literaturpreis - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, now awarded for the fifth time, is the major German 'best translated book award' (with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize the other major contender).
At €25,000 for the author and €10,000 for the translator, it offers good money, too.
They've now announced the winner of the 2013 prize, and it is Open City (author: Teju Cole; translator: Christine Richter-Nilsson) -- a book where, oddly enough, they didn't bother translating the title .....
136 titles, originally written in 27 languages were in the running for this; the shortlist included books by Andrei Bitov, Lloyd Jones, Zakhar Prilepin, and Jean Rolin; previous winners include Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón (another English title that went untranslated), Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, and Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye.
They've now announced the winner of the 2013 prize, and it is Open City (author: Teju Cole; translator: Christine Richter-Nilsson) -- a book where, oddly enough, they didn't bother translating the title .....
136 titles, originally written in 27 languages were in the running for this; the shortlist included books by Andrei Bitov, Lloyd Jones, Zakhar Prilepin, and Jean Rolin; previous winners include Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón (another English title that went untranslated), Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, and Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye.