The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation () is awarded yearly by the
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche, Frankfurt, Paulskirche in Frankfurt. I ...
in
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the ...
.
Established 1958, it was named after the German poet and philologist
Johann Heinrich Voß.
Not to be confused with the .
Winners
* 1958:
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and wit ...
and
Willa Muir
Willa Muir (née Anderson; 13 March 1890 – 22 May 1970), also known as Agnes Neill Scott, was a Scottish novelist, essayist and translator.Beth Dickson, '' British women writers : a critical reference guide'' edited by Janet Todd. New York : ...
* 1959:
Benno Geiger
* 1960:
E. K. Rahsin (Elisabeth "Less" Kaerrick)
* 1961:
Jakob Hegner
* 1962:
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
* 1963:
Friedhelm Kemp
* 1964:
Michael Hamburger
Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and ...
* 1965:
Wolfgang Schadewaldt
* 1966:
Eva Rechel-Mertens,
Philippe Jaccottet
* 1967:
Witold Wirpsza,
Karl Dedecius
* 1968:
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...
* 1969:
Hans Hennecke
* 1970:
Janheinz Jahn
* 1971:
Karl August Horst
* 1972:
Elmar Tophoven
* 1973:
Peter Gan (Richard Moering)
* 1974:
Peter Urban
* 1975:
Curt Meyer-Clason
* 1976:
Hanns Grössel
* 1977:
Edwin Maria Landau
* 1978: Übersetzerkollegium der Deutschen
Thomas von Aquin-Ausgabe
* 1979:
Gerda Scheffel and
Helmut Scheffel
* 1980:
Annemarie Schimmel
* 1981:
Wolfgang Kasack
* 1982:
Heinz von Sauter
* 1983:
Rolf-Dietrich Keil
* 1984:
Anneliese Botond
* 1985:
Elisabeth Schnack
* 1986:
Hanno Helbling
* 1987:
Rudolf Wittkopf
* 1988:
Traugott König
* 1989:
Michael Walter
* 1990:
Manfred Fuhrmann
* 1991:
Fritz Vogelgsang
* 1992:
Simon Werle
* 1993:
Roswitha Matwin-Buschmann
* 1994:
Werner von Koppenfels
* 1995:
Rosemarie Tietze
* 1996:
Joachim Kalka
* 1997:
Hans-Horst Henschen
* 1998:
Gustav Just
* 1999:
Harry Rowohlt
* 2000:
Armin Eidherr
* 2001:
Burkhart Kroeber
* 2002:
Gisela Perlet
* 2003:
Hans Wolf
* 2004:
Michael von Albrecht
* 2005:
Elisabeth Edl
* 2006:
Ralph Dutli
* 2007:
Stefan Weidner
* 2008:
Verena Reichel
* 2009:
Susanne Lange
* 2010:
Zsuzsanna Gahse
Zsuzsanna Gahse ( Vajda; born 27 June 1946) is a Hungarian-born German-language writer and translator who lives in Switzerland.
Life and works
Gahse is the daughter of Hungarian parents and Hungarian is her mother tongue. Her family fled to ...
* 2011:
Frank Günther
* 2012:
Gabriele Leupold
* 2013:
Wolfgang Kubin
* 2014:
Sabine Stöhr
* 2015:
Anne Birkenhauer
* 2016:
Anne Weber
* 2017:
Renate Schmidgall
* 2018:
Wolfgang Schlüter
* 2019:
* 2020:
Ernest Wichner
* 2021:
Barbara Kleiner
* 2022:
Rainer G. Schmidt
* 2023:
Andreas Tretner
* 2024:
Esther Kinsky
References
External links
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Translation awards
Awards established in 1958
1958 establishments in West Germany