They've announced that Catherine Schelbert will receive the 2015 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for her translation of Hugo Ball's Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor published by Wakefield Press -- a great choice.
(See also the Wakefield Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.)
One of my favorite things about this prize is that they reveal all the titles in the running (as every literary prize should) -- making it also a great resource to see what's been translated from German into English in any given year. The list of 2015 submissions is noteworthy both for how few submissions there were -- twenty-one (compared to more than fifty in 2014, for example) -- and the fact that a stunning nine of those twenty-one were from a single publisher -- Seagull Books. Yes, a publisher based in India dominates translation-from-the German-into-English.
One of my favorite things about this prize is that they reveal all the titles in the running (as every literary prize should) -- making it also a great resource to see what's been translated from German into English in any given year. The list of 2015 submissions is noteworthy both for how few submissions there were -- twenty-one (compared to more than fifty in 2014, for example) -- and the fact that a stunning nine of those twenty-one were from a single publisher -- Seagull Books. Yes, a publisher based in India dominates translation-from-the German-into-English.