Schlegel Tieck Prize for German Translation
Administered by:
Dorethy Sym
The Translators Association
84 Drayton Gardens
London SW10 9SB
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7373 6642
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 373 5768
email@DSym@societyofauthors.org
Awarded for the best translation from the German of a full-length work of literary merit and general interest. The original must have been first published in the last 100 years.
Publisher entry only
Prize: £2200
Submit: 3 copies of the translation and 3 copies of the original text
Most recent winner (2003): Anthea Bell for her translation of Rain by Karen Duve (Bloomsbury)
Runner-up: Michael Hoffman for his translation of Luck by Gert Hoffman (The Harvill Press)