helen and kurt wolff prize – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:28:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 For Fans of Prizes, German Literature /College/translation/threepercent/2011/02/04/for-fans-of-prizes-german-literature/ /College/translation/threepercent/2011/02/04/for-fans-of-prizes-german-literature/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2011/02/04/for-fans-of-prizes-german-literature/ I know Michael Orthofer always rants about the lack of transparency in what titles have been submitted for particular awards. (I believe the Man Booker is his big target.) Well, the good people at the Goethe Institut directly go against that trend,

It’s similar to our Translation Database but includes nonfiction, retranslations, etc.

Interesting list of titles . . . Can’t even begin to predict who will win. (Rooting for Kenneth Northcutt—his translation of Andreas Maier’s Klausen is incredible.)

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