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Reitter chosen to receive the 2025 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

May 21, 2025

Reitter chosen to receive the 2025 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Paul Reitter receives Translator Prize
Bookcover Capital Karl Marx

Paul Reitter, the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. Established in 1996 and newly funded by the Friends of Goethe New York, the prize honors an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the United States the previous year. The prizewinning translator receives $5,000 as well as a fully funded trip to the Frankfurter Buchmesse from Oct.15-19, 2025.