The 2019 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize has gone to Damion Searls for his translation of Uwe Johnson’s 1700 page novel Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, published by New York Review Books Classics. Congratulations!
More information about the prize and the winning translation can be found on the Goethe-Institut USA website. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in New York on May 23.