"The translator is often the one who 'discovers' the writers and seeks an audience for them," says Isabel Fargo Cole, winner of the Goethe-Institut's Wolff Translator's Prize for Old Rendering Plant.
Journalist Richard Lloyd Parry has won the Rathbones Folio for his examination of the worst catastrophe in Japan since the atomic bombings of World War II.
Sumptuous film biographies, costume-design studies, or the making of a ground-breaking design: all are fair game in this new prize category from the Frankfurter Buchmesse.