Schlegel-Tieck Prize

Given by Society of Authors

Other Names: Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Translation (Russian)
119 Works 59,001 Books 1,158 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize is an annual award of £3,000 for translations into English of full length German works of literary merit and general interest. First awarded in 1965 and named for two show more poets of the Romantic period, August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845) and Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853), the prize is generously sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (73), Commended (6), Runner-Up (18), Shortlist (22)
Years:
All, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2010 (2), 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (1), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (2), 1997 (1), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (1), 1993 (3), 1992 (1), 1991 (2), 1990 (1), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (2), 1982 (1), 1981 (2), 1980 (2), 1979 (2), 1978 (1), 1977 (2), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (2)

Winner 73

WorkYear
Hinterland by Arno Geiger
Jamie Bulloch
2023
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić
Damion Searls
2022
Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (The German List) by Durs Grünbein
Karen Leeder
2021
These Numbered Days: Gezaehlte Tage by Peter Huchel
Martyn Crucefix
2020
River by Esther Kinsky
Iain Galbraith
2019
Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani
Tony Crawford
2018
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Allan Blunden
2017
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner
Iain Galbraith
2016
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Susan Bernofsky
2015
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke
Jamie Bulloch
2014
Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ian Crockatt
2013
Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi
Vincent Kling
2012
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Damion Searls
2011
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Breon Mitchell
2010
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
Anthea Bell
2009
Snow Part by Paul Celan
Ian Fairley
2008
The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
Sally-Anne Spencer
2007
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers
Philip Boehm
2006
Selected Poems by Evelyn Schlag
Karen Leeder
2005
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945-59 by Victor Klemperer
Martin Chalmers
2004
Rain by Karen Duve
Anthea Bell
2003
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Anthea Bell
2002
Too Far Afield by Günter Grass
Krishna Winston
2001
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Joyce Crick
2000
Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig
John Brownjohn
1999
Letters Back to Ancient China by Herbert Rosendorfer
Mike Mitchell
1998
Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger
Shaun Whiteside
1997
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
David McLintock
1996
Caesar by Christian Meier
David McLintock
1996
The Enlightenment by Ulrich Im Hof
William Yuill
1995
Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber
Ronald Speirs
1995
Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth
Krishna Winston
1994
Infanta by Bodo Kirchhoff
John Brownjohn
1993
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen
Michael Hofmann
1993
The Swedish Cavalier by Leo Perutz
John Brownjohn
1993
The Training Ground by Siegfried Lenz
Geoffrey Skelton
1992
The Story of the Last Thought by Edgar Hilsenrath
Hugh Young
1991
The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr
John Woods
1991
Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Böll
David McLintock
1990
The Town Park and Other Stories by Hermann Grab
Quintin Hoare
1989
The Snake Tree by Uwe Timm
Peter Tegel
1989
The Rat by Günter Grass
Ralph Manheim
1988
The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind
Michael Hofmann
1988
The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann
Anthea Bell
1987
The Spectacle at the Tower by Gert Hofmann
Christopher Middleton
1986
Pro and Contra Wagner by Thomas Mann
Allan Blunden
1986
The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World by Henning Graf Reventlow
John Bowden
1985
Marbot: A Biography by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Patricia Crampton
1984
George Grosz: An Autobiography by George Grosz
Arnold Pomerans
1983
A History of European Integration, 1945-47 by Walter Lipgens
Paul Falla & A.J. Ryder
1983
The Wolf: A Species in Danger by Erik Zimen
Eric Mosbacher
1982
Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
Michael Hamburger
1981
Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today by Hans Küng
Edward Quinn
1981
The English House by Hermann Muthesius
Janet Seligman
1980
Sophokles by Karl Reinhardt
David & Hazel Harvey
1980
People and politics: The years 1960-1975 by Willy Brandt
John Brownjohn
1979
The Flounder by Günter Grass
Ralph Manheim
1979
German poetry, 1910-1975: An anthology by Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger
1978
The resistible rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Ralph Manheim
1977
Wallenstein by Golo Mann
Charles Kessler
1977
War of illusions: German policies from 1911 to 1914 by Fritz Fischer
Marian Jackson
1976
Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine During the Early Hellenistic Period by Martin Hengel
John Bowden
1975
Frieda Lawrence by Robert Lucas
Geoffrey Skelton
1974
Love and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns by Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Geoffrey Strachan
1973
Brutal Takeover by Kurt Von Schuschnigg
Richard Barry
1972
Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943-1944 by Paul Carell
Ewald Osers
1971
Society Without the Father: A Contribution to Social Psychology by Alexander Mitscherlich
Eric Mosbacher
1970
The End of a Mission by Heinrich Böll
Lelia Vennewitz
1969
History of The International: Vol 1 1864 - 1914 by Julius Braunthal
Henry Collins
1968
The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud
James Strachey
1967
Dog Years by Günter Grass
Ralph Manheim
1966
The Thirtieth Year: Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann
Michael Bullock
1965
Report on Bruno by Joseph Breitbach
Michael Bullock
1965

Commended 6

WorkYear
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
Katy Derbyshire
2017
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski
Anthea Bell
2016
The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky
Shaun Whiteside
2015
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
Anthea Bell
2014
Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe
Jamie Bulloch
2013
Funeral for a Dog: A Novel by Thomas Pletzinger
Ross Benjamin
2012

Runner-Up 18

WorkYear
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann
Lucy Jones
2023
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964–1970 by Brigitte Reimann
Steph Morris
2022
Cox: oder Der Lauf der Zeit Roman by Christoph Ransmayr
Simon Pare
2021
You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke
Jamie Bulloch
2020
Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig
Karen Leeder
2019
Kruso by Lutz Seiler
Tess Lewis
2018
Angina Days: Selected Poems by Günter Eich
Michael Hofmann
2011
The Return of the State? by Erhard Eppler
Allan Blunden
2010
The Seventh Well: A Novel by Fred Wander
Michael Hofmann
2009
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Anthea Bell
2008
Vienna by Eva Menasse
Anthea Bell.
2007
A Little History of the World by Ernst Hans Gombrich
Caroline Mustill
2006
The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Gert Ledig
Michael Hofmann
2005
Luck by Gert Hofmann
Michael Hofmann
2003
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
John Felstiner
2002
Wiener Passion: Roman by Lilian Faschinger
Anthea Bell
2001
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Patrick Bridgwater
2000
The Castle by Franz Kafka
J.A. Underwood
1998

Shortlist 22

WorkYear
One Grand Summer by Ewald Arenz
Rachel Ward
2023
While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer
Katy Derbyshire
2023
Strafe: Stories by Ferdinand von Schirach
Katharina Hall
2023
Annette, ein Heldinnenepos by Anne Weber
Tess Lewis
2023
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
Gitta Honegger
2022
The High-Rise Diver by Julia von Lucadou
Sharmila Cohen
2022
just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now (The German List) by Friedricke Mayröcker
Roslyn Theobald
2022
Troubled Water: A Journey Around the Black Sea (Armchair Traveller) by Jens Mühling
Simon Pare
2022
De dag dat mijn grootvader een held was by Paulus Hochgatterer
Jamie Bulloch
2021
Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit
Sophie Duvernoy
2021
Die Hungrigen und die Satten by Timur Vermes
Jamie Bulloch
2021
De zoon van de verhalenverteller by Pierre Jarawan
Sinead Crowe and Rachel McNicholl
2020
Agathe: Or, The Forgotten Sister by Robert Musil
Joel Agee
2020
Beside Myself by Marianna Salzmann
Imogen Taylor
2020
Das Geschlecht der Engel, der Himmel der Heiligen: Ein Brevier by Raoul Schrott
Karen Leeder
2020
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson
Damion Searls
2019
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
Simon Pare
2019
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
Margot Bettauer Dembo
2019
Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Angela Steidele
Katy Derbyshire
2019
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Susan Bernofsky
2018
The Old King in His Exile by Arno Geiger
Stefan Tobler
2018
Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel
Jen Calleja
2018

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