Searls Takes Home Wolff Translator’s Prize

May 01, 2019

Damion Searls, translator of Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson (New York Review of Books), is the winner of the Goethe-Institut's 2019 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. The winner of the Wolff Prize was determined by a jury of five consisting of Shelley Frisch (chair), Bettina Abarbanell, Ross Benjamin, John Hargraves, and Susan Harris. The award will be presented at a prize ceremony held at the Goethe-Institut New York on May 23rd. 

The Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded annually to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the U.S. the previous year. The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000. Funded by the German government, the prize was established in 1996.

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