The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation
Past Winners
2012
Winner: Vincent Kling for his translation of Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi (Dalkey Archive Press)
Commended: Ross Benjamin for his translation of Funeral for a Dog (pictured far right) by Thomas Pletzinger (Norton)
2011
Winner: Damion Searls for Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (Hesperus)
Runner-up: Michael Hofmann for Angina Days – Selected Poems by Günter Eich (Princeton University Press)
2010
Breon Mitchell for The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (Harvill Secker)
Runner-up: Allan Blunden for The Return of the State? By Erhard Eppler (Forum Press)
2009
Winner: Anthea Bell for Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press)
Runner up: Michael Hofmann for The Seventh Well by Fred Wander (Granta)
2008
Winner: Ian Fairley for Snow Part by Paul Celan (Carcanet)
Runner up: Anthea Bell for Amok and Other Stories (Pushkin Press)
2007
Winner: Sally-Anne Spencer for The Swarm by Frank Schätzing (Hodder)
Runner up: Anthea Bell for Vienna by Eva Menasse (Weidenfeld)
2006
Winner: Philip Boehm for A Woman in Berlin Anonymous (Virago)
Runner up: Caroline Mustill for A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich (Yale University Press)
2005
Winner: Karen Leeder for Selected Poems by Evelyn Schlag (Carcanet)
Runner up: Michael Hofmann for The Stalin Organ by Gert Ledig (Granta Books)
2004
Winner: Martin Chalmers for The Lesser Evil - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2003
Winner: Anthea Bell for Rain by Karen Duve (Bloomsbury)
Runner up: Michael Hofmann for Luck by Gert Hofmann (Harvill)
2002
Winner: Anthea Bell for Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Hamish Hamilton)
Runner up: John Felstiner for The Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton)
2001
Winner: Krishna Winston for Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass (Faber and Faber)
Runner up: Anthea Bell for Vienna Passion by Lilian Faschinger (Headline)
2000
Winner: Joyce Crick for The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (OUP)
Runner up: Patrick Bridgwater for Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (Menard Press)
1999
Winner: John Brownjohn for Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig (Harvill)
1998
Winner: Mike Mitchell for Letters Back to Ancient China by Herbert Rosendorfer (Dedalus)
Runner up: J.A. Underwood for The Castle by Franz Kafka (Penguin)
1997
Winner: Shaun Whiteside for Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger (Headline Review)
1996
Winner: David McLintock for Extinction by Thomas Bernhardt (Quartet),
and David McLintock for Caesar by Christian Meier (HarperCollins)
1995
Winner: Ronald Speirs for Political Writings of Max Weber (CUP)
and William Yuill for The Making of Europe: The Enlightenment by Ulrich im Hof (Blackwell)
1994
Winner: Krishna Winston for Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth (Constable)
1993
Three joint winners: John Brownjohn for The Swedish Cavaliers by Leo Perutz (Harvill), John Brownjohn for Infanta by Bodo Kirchhoff (Harvill) and Michael Hofmann for Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen (Hamish Hamilton)
1992
Winner: Geoffrey Skelton for The Training Ground by Siegfried Lenz (Methuen)
1991
Winner: John Woods for The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr (Chatto & Windus)
and Hugh Young The Story of the Last Thought by Edgar Hilsenrath (Penguin)
1990
Winner: David McLintock for Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Boll (Secker & Warburg)
1989
Winner: Quintin Hoare for The Town Park & Other Stories by Herman Grab (Verso),
and Peter Tegel for The Snake Tree by Uwe Timm (Picador)
1988
Winner: Ralph Manheim for The Rat by Gunter Grass (Secker & Warburg)
and Michael Hofmann for The Double-Bass by Patrick Suskind (Hamish Hamilton)
1987
Winner: Anthea Bell for The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann (Viking)
1986
Winner: Christopher Middleton for The Spectacle at the Tower by Gert Hofmann (Carcanet)
and Allan Blunden for Pro and Contra Wagner by Thomas Mann (Faber and Faber)
1985
Winner: John Bowden for The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World by Henning Graf Reventlow (SCM Press)
1984
Winner: Patricia Crampton for Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer (Dent)
1983
Winner: Paul Falla & A.J. Ryder for A History of European Integration 1945/47 by Walter Lipgens (Clarendon Press)
and Arnold Pomerans for A Small Yes and a Big No by George Grosz (Allison & Busby)
1982
Winner: Eric Mosbacher for The Wolf by Eric Zimen (Souvenir)
1981
Winner: Michael Hamburger for Poems by Paul Celan (Carcanet),
and Edward Quinn for Does God Exist? by Hans Kung (Collins)
1980
Winner: Janet Seligman for The English House by Herman Matheusieus (Granada)
and David & Hazel Harvey for Sophocles by Karl Reinhart (Blackwell)
1979
Winner: Ralph Manheim for The Flounder by Gunter Grass (Secker & Warburg)
and John Brownjohn People and Politics by Willy Brandt (Collins)
1978
Winner: Michael Hamburger for German Poetry 1910-1975 (Carcanet)
1977
Winner: Charles Kessler for Wallenstein – His Life Narrated by Golo Mann (Andre Deutsch)
and Ralph Manheim for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (Eyre Methuen)
1976
Winner: Marian Jackson (deceased) for War of Illusions by Fritz Fischer (Chatto & Windus)
1975
Winner: John Bowden for Judaism and Hellensim by Martin Hengel (SCM Press)
1974
Winner: Geoffrey Skelton for Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas (Secker & Warburg)
1973
Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Love and Hate by Irendus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (Methuen)
1972
Winner : Richard Barry for The Brutal Takeover by Kurt von Schuschnigg (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1971
Winner: Ewald Osers for The Scorched Earth by Paul Carell (Harrap)
1970
Winner: Eric Mosbacher for Society without the Father by Alexander Mischerlich (Tavistock)
1969
Winner: Lelia Vennewitz for The End of a Mission by Heinrich Boll (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1968
Winner: Henry Collins for History of the International by J. Braunthal (Nelson)
1967
Winner: James Strachey for Works of Sigmund Freud (Hogarth)
1966
Winner: Ralph Manheim for Dog Years by Gunter Grass (Secker & Warburg)
1965
Winner: Michael Bullock for The Thirtieth Year by Ingeborg Bachmann (Andre Deutsch) and Report on Bruno by Joseph Breitbach (Cape)