The Festival Neue Literatur -- 'New Writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S.' -- is apparently due to run 19 through 22 February (so you'd kind of think they'd have some information about that up at the official site ...), and that's when they'll also be awarding the Friedrich Ulfers Prize for the third time, honoring: 'a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator, or scholar who has championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States' -- and they've now announced that Liveright editor in chief and publishing director, Bob Weil, will get the prize this year:
Bob Weil was chosen as the prize winner for his contribution to the dissemination of German-language literature in the United States. Weil has edited many literary translations of German writers, ranging from Joseph Roth to Bertolt Brecht to Franz Kafka to Clemens Setz (a former Festival Neue Literatur author).Sounds like a good choice.