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The MLA’s Lois Roth Award goes to Paul Reitter for Karl Marx’s Capital

December 8, 2025

The MLA’s Lois Roth Award goes to Paul Reitter for Karl Marx’s Capital

Paul Reitter

Publication Awards

The MLA’s Lois Roth Award goes to Paul Reitter for Karl Marx’s Capital; Alex Gil And Fiona Graham receive honorable mentions:

New York, NY – 3 December 2025 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is presenting its eighteenth Lois Roth Award for a translation of a literary work to Paul Reitter, ASC Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, Columbus, for his translation of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1, published by Princeton University Press. An honorable mention will be given to Alex Gil, senior lecturer II and associate research faculty of digital humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, for his translation of Aimé Césaire’s . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent / . . . . . . Et les chiens se taisaient, published by Duke University Press. Fiona Graham, a literary translator based in Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium, is receiving an honorable mention for her translation of Elin Anna Labba’s The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi, published by the University of Minnesota Press. The late Lois W. Roth worked for the United States Information Agency as an advocate for the use of literary study as a means of understanding world cultures.

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