Source:
1965 • Winner:
Michael Bullock for
The Thirtieth Year by
Ingeborg Bachmann (
Andre Deutsch) and
Report on Bruno by
Joseph Breitbach (
Jonathan Cape)
1966 • Winner:
Ralph Manheim for
Dog Years by
Günter Grass (
Secker & Warburg)
1967 • Winner:
James Strachey for
The Works of Sigmund Freud (
Hogarth Press)
1968 • Winner:
Henry Collins for
History of the International by
Julius Braunthal (Nelson)
1969 • Winner:
Leila Vennewitz for
The End of a Mission by
Heinrich Böll (
Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1970 • Winner:
Eric Mosbacher for
Society without the Father by
Alexander Mitscherlich (
Tavistock)
1971 • Winner:
Ewald Osers for
Scorched Earth by
Paul Carell (
Harrap)
1972 • Winner:
Richard Barry for
The Brutal Takeover by
Kurt von Schuschnigg (
Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1973 • Winner:
Geoffrey Strachan for
Love and Hate by
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (
Methuen)
1974 • Winner:
Geoffrey Skelton for
Frieda Lawrence by
Robert Lucas (
Secker & Warburg)
1975 • Winner:
John Bowden for
Judaism and Hellenism by
Martin Hengel (
SCM Press)
1976 • Winner:
Marian Jackson (deceased) for
War of Illusions by
Fritz Fischer (
Chatto & Windus)
1977 • Winners:
Charles Kessler for
Wallenstein: His Life Narrated by
Golo Mann (
Andre Deutsch);
Ralph Manheim for
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by
Bertolt Brecht (
Methuen)
1978 • Winner:
Michael Hamburger for
German Poetry 1910–1975 (
Carcanet)
1979 • Winners:
Ralph Manheim for
Die Flunder (
The Flounder) by
Günter Grass (
Secker & Warburg);
John Brownjohn for
People and Politics by
Willy Brandt (
HarperCollins)
1980 • Winners:
Janet Seligman for
The English House by
Herman Muthesius (
Granada);
David Harvey &
Hazel Harvey for
Sophocles by
Karl Reinhardt (
Blackwell)
1981 • Winners:
Michael Hamburger for
Poems by
Paul Celan (
Carcanet);
Edward Quinn for
Does God Exist? by
Hans Küng (
HarperCollins)
1982 • Winner:
Eric Mosbacher for
The Wolf by
Eric Zimen (
Souvenir)
1983 • Winners:
Paul Falla &
A.J. Ryder for
A History of European Integration, 1945–47 by
Walter Lipgens (
Clarendon Press);
Arnold Pomerans for
A Small Yes and a Big No by
George Grosz (
Allison & Busby)
1984 • Winner:
Patricia Crampton for
Marbot by
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (
Dent)
1985 • Winner:
John Bowden for
The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World by
Henning Graf Reventlow (
SCM Press)
1986 • Winners:
Christopher Middleton for
The Spectacle at the Tower by
Gert Hofmann (
Carcanet);
Allan Blunden for
Pro and Contra Wagner by
Thomas Mann (
Faber and Faber)
1987 • Winner:
Anthea Bell for
The Stone and the Flute by
Hans Bemmann (
Viking Press)
1988 • Winners:
Ralph Manheim for
The Rat by
Günter Grass (
Secker & Warburg);
Michael Hofmann for
Der Kontrabaß (
The Double-Bass) by
Patrick Süskind (
Hamish Hamilton)
1989 • Winners:
Quintin Hoare for
The Town Park & Other Stories by
Hermann Grab (
Verso);
Peter Tegel for
The Snake Tree by
Uwe Timm (
Picador)
1990 • Winner:
David McLintock for
Women in a River Landscape by
Heinrich Böll (
Secker & Warburg)
1991 • Winners:
John E. Woods for
The Last World by
Christoph Ransmayr (
Chatto & Windus);
Hugh Young for
The Story of the Last Thought by
Edgar Hilsenrath (
Penguin)
1992 • Winner:
Geoffrey Skelton for
The Training Ground by
Siegfried Lenz (
Methuen)
1993 • Winners:
John Brownjohn for
The Swedish Cavaliers by
Leo Perutz (
Harvill Secker);
John Brownjohn for
Infanta by
Bodo Kirchhoff (
Harvill Secker);
Michael Hofmann for
Death in Rome by
Wolfgang Koeppen (
Hamish Hamilton)
1994 • Winner:
Krishna Winston for
Goebbels by
Ralf Georg Reuth (
Constable)
1995 • Winners:
Ronald Speirs for
Political Writings of Max Weber (
CUP);
William Yuill for
The Making of Europe: The Enlightenment by
Ulrich im Hof (
Blackwell)
1996 • Winners:
David McLintock for
Extinction by
Thomas Bernhardt (
Quartet);
David McLintock for
Caesar by
Christian Meier (
HarperCollins)
1997 • Winner:
Shaun Whiteside for
Magdalena the Sinner by
Lilian Faschinger (
Headline Review)
1998 • Winner:
Mike Mitchell for
Letters Back to Ancient China by
Herbert Rosendörfer (
Dedalus) • Runner-up:
J.A. Underwood for
Das Schloss (
The Castle) by
Franz Kafka (
Penguin)
1999 • Winner:
John Brownjohn for
Heroes Like Us by
Thomas Brussig (
Harvill Secker)
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)
2001 • Winner:
Krishna Winston for
Too Far Afield by
Günter Grass (
Faber and Faber) • Runner-up:
Anthea Bell for
Vienna Passion by
Lilian Faschinger (
Headline Review)
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)
2003 • Winner:
Anthea Bell for
Rain by
Karen Duve (
Bloomsbury) • Runner-up:
Michael Hofmann for
Luck by
Gert Hofmann (
Harvill Secker)
2004 • Winner:
Martin Chalmers for
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945–59 (
Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2005 • Winner:
Karen Leeder for
Selected Poems by
Evelyn Schlag (
Carcanet) • Runner-up:
Michael Hofmann for
The Stalin Organ by
Gert Ledig (
Granta)
2006 • Winner:
Philip Boehm for
A Woman in Berlin by anonymous (
Virago Press) • Runner-up:
Caroline Mustill for
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich (
Yale University Press)
2007 • Winner:
Sally-Ann Spencer for
The Swarm by
Frank Schätzing (
Hodder) • Runner-up:
Anthea Bell for
Vienna by
Eva Menasse (
Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2008 • Winner:
Ian Fairley for
Snow Part by
Paul Celan (
Carcanet) • Runner-up:
Anthea Bell for
Amok and Other Stories by
Stefan Zweig (
Pushkin 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)
2010 • Winner:
Breon Mitchell for
Die Blechtrommel The Tin Drum by
Günter Grass (
Harvill Secker) • Runner-up:
Allan Blunden for
The Return of the State? by
Erhard Eppler (
Forum Press)
2011 • Winner:
Damion Searls for
Comedy in a Minor Key by
Hans Keilson (
Hesperus Press) • Runner-up:
Michael Hofmann for
Angina Days: Selected Poems by
Günter Eich (
Princeton University Press)
2012 • Winner:
Vincent Kling for a translation of
Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by
Aglaja Veteranyi (
Dalkey Archive Press) • Commended:
Ross Benjamin for a translation of
Funeral for a Dog by
Thomas Pletzinger (
Norton)
2013 • Winner:
Ian Crockatt for a translation of
Pure Contradiction – Selected Poems by
Rainer Maria Rilke (
Arc Publications) • Commended:
Jamie Bulloch for a translation of
Sea of Ink by
Richard Weihe (
Peirene Press)
2014 • Winner:
Jamie Bulloch for a translation of
The Mussel Feast by
Birgit Vanderbecke (
Peirene Press) • Commended:
Anthea Bell for a translation of
In Times of Fading Light by
Eugen Ruge (
Graywolf Press)
2015 • Winner:
Susan Bernofsky for a translation of
The End of Days by
Jenny Erpenbeck (
Portobello Books) • Commended:
Shaun Whiteside for a translation of ''The Giraffe's Neck'' by
Judith Schalansky (
Bloomsbury)
2016 • Winner:
Iain Galbraith for a translation of
Self-Portrait With A Swarm of Bees by
Jan Wagner (
Arc Publications) • Commended:
Anthea Bell for a translation of
All for Nothing by
Walter Kempowski (
Granta)
2017 • Winner:
Allan Blunden for a translation of
Nightmare in Berlin by
Hans Fallada (
Scribe) • Commended:
Katy Derbyshire for a translation of
Bricks and Mortar by
Clemens Meyer (
Fitzcarraldo Editions)
2018 • Winner:
Tony Crawford for a translation of
Wonder Beyond Belief by
Navid Kermani (
Polity Press) • Runner Up:
Karen Leeder for a translation of
Thick of It by
Ulrike Almut Sandig (Seagull Books) • Shortlisted: •
Margot Bettauer Dembo for a translation of
The Seventh Cross by
Anna Seghers (
Virago Press) •
Katy Derbyshire for a translation of
Gentleman Jack by
Angela Steidele (
Serpent's Tail) •
Simon Pare for a translation of
The Flying Mountain by
Christoph Ransmayr (Seagull Books) •
Damion Searls for a translation of
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Cresspahl by
Uwe Johnson (
New York Review Books)
2020 • Winner:
Martyn Crucefix for his translation of
These Numbered Days by
Peter Huchel (Shearsman Books) • Runner-up:
Jamie Bulloch for his translation of
You Would Have Missed Me by
Birgit Vanderbeke (Peirene Press) • Shortlisted: •
Joel Agee for a translation of
Agathe: Or, the Forgotten Sister by
Robert Musil (
New York Review Books) •
Imogen Taylor for a translation of
Beside Myself by
Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Text Publishing) •
Karen Leeder for a translation of
The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven by
Raoul Schrott (
Seagull Books) •
Sinead Crowe and
Rachel McNicholl for a translation of
The Storyteller by
Pierre Jarawan (
World Editions)
2021 • Winner: Karen Leeder for a translation of
Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City by
Durs Grünbein (Seagull Books) • Runner up: Simon Pare for a translation of
Cox; or, The Course of Time by
Christoph Ransmayr (Seagull Books) • Shortlisted: • Jamie Bulloch for a translation of
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero by
Paulus Hochgatterer (MacLehose Press) • Jamie Bulloch for a translation of
The Hungry and the Fat by
Timur Vermes (MacLehose Press) • Sophie Duvernoy for a translation of
Käsebier Takes Berlin by
Gabriele Tergit (Pushkin Press)
2022 • Winner: Damion Searls for a translation of
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišič (Jonathan Cape) • Runner up: Stef Morris for a translation of
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970, by Brigitte Reimann (Seagull Books) • Shortlisted: • Roslyn Theobald for a translation of
just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now, by Friederike Mayröcker (Seagull Books) • Gitta Honegger for a translation of
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek (Fitzcarraldo Editions) • Sharmila Cohen for a translation of
The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou (World Editions) • Simon Pare for a translation of
Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea,by Jens Mühling (Haus Publishing)
2023 • Winner: Jamie Bulloch for a translation of
Hinterland by Arno Geiger (Picador) • Runner up: Lucy Jones for a translation of
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (Penguin Modern Classics) • Shortlisted: • Katy Derbyshire for a translation of
While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer (Fitzcarraldo Editions) • Katharina Hall for a translation of
Punishment by Ferdinand von Schirach (Baskerville) • Tess Lewis for a translation of
Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale by Anne Weber (The Indigo Press) • Rachel Ward for a translation of
Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz (Orenda Books)
2024 • Winner: Andrew Shanks for a translation of
Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry by
Nelly Sachs (Carcanet Press) ==References==