Paul Reitter has won the 2025 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 by Karl Marx (Princeton University Press). Reitter receives $5,000 and a fully funded trip to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Judges commended Reitter for having "achieved the near-impossible task of translating Capital, Volume 1, into what the Nation has lauded as 'crisp and contemporary' English. Our jury has marveled at Reitter's ability to retain the accuracy of the lengthy original, seemingly forbidding text, while rendering it an inviting and even humorous read. Together with editor Paul North, Reitter has brought us an extraordinary edition that also features a sweeping scholarly apparatus drawing on generations of scholarship and helping to make this new translation the definitive one for our era."
In addition, Juliane Scholtz is the winner of the Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York for her translation of a portion of Judith Kuckart's auto-fictional novel Die Welt zwischen den Nachrichten (The World Between the News).
Organized by the Goethe-Institut New York, the prizes are funded by Friends of Goethe New York with additional support from the Frankfurter Book Fair and the German Consulate General New York.
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The shortlist has been released for the £5,000 (about $6,650) Klaus Flugge Prize, which recognizes "the most promising and exciting newcomer to children's picture book illustration." The winner will be named September 11. This year's shortlisted illustrators are:
Emma Farrarons for My Hair Is as Long as a River, written by Charlie Castle
Mikey Please for The Café at the Edge of the Woods
Rhian Stone for Grandad's Star, written by Frances Tosdevin