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
Things That Disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals
Paperback, 2025
An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: “She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have—it’s no...
Things That Disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals
E Book
An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: “She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have—it’s no...


