Kurt Beals

In 2010 Kurt Beals was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize. His translation of Regina Ullmann's The Country Road was published by New Directions in 2015.

Kurt Beals

In 2010 Kurt Beals was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize. His translation of Regina Ullmann's The Country Road was published by New Directions in 2015.

Books by Kurt Beals

  • The Country Road: Stories

    Regina Ullman, Kurt Beals

    Paperback, 2015

    Although a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.
  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    Hardback, 2016

    Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    Paperback, 2017

    Now in paperback, a wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

    Paperback, 2020

    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck
  • The Country Road: Stories

    Regina Ullman, Kurt Beals

    E Book, 2015

    Although a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.
  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    E Book, 2016

    Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

    E Book, 2020

    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck