Betsy Carter, a SLAT 3rd-year student, received the 2023 Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York. Betsy received the prize for her translation of an excerpt from Simone Sharbert's novel Rosa in Grau: Eine Heimsuchung. Please go here to read the wonderful comments from the prize jury about Betsy's talented translation.
The Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York was created in 2010 to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities. The prize is open to college students and to all translators under the age of 35 who have not yet published, nor are under contract for, a book-length translation.
Congratulations on you prize, Betsy!