Schlegel-Tieck Prize


The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation prize given by the Society of Authors in London. It is named for August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck who translated Shakespeare to German in the 19th century. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000.
The winner of the 2019 prize, for translations published in 2018, was Iain Galbraith for a translation of River by Esther Kinsky.

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