The Goethe-Institut honors non-Germans each year for their outstanding service in conveying the German language and promoting international cultural relations.
Writer Yurii Andrukhovych from Ukraine shares the 2016 prize with Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi and the Georgian museum director David Lordkipanidze. Andrukhovych, who has translated the works of German poets like Rainer Maria Rilke into Ukrainian, was praised by the Goethe-Institut for “giving the readership their new access to the German classics.”
