Jackie Smith Wins 2021 Wolff Translator's Prize
Jackie Smith won the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for her translation of An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (New Directions).
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, which 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. It is funded by the German government for the promotion of German literature.
The judges said: "Judith Schalansky's genre-bending (or blending) text roams across time and space in 12 chapters whose identical lengths belie their tremendous diversity of subject matter, as they transport us from an island that disappeared into the South Pacific all the way to the moon, from ancient Greece to present-day Germany—and beyond."
