This award will help make the work of an important and special writer available to readers of English. It also provides invaluable support for my transition into translating more prose in addition to drama. For two decades, I’ve devoted a great deal of energy to translating contemporary theater from German and French, as well as to advocating for more production of drama in translation in the U.S. and U.K. Anne Weber writes prose texts with the same combination of formal experimentation and moral incisiveness I’ve appreciated in the plays I’ve translated by such writers as Lukas Bärfuss, Ewald Palmetshofer, and Maxi Obexer. Weber repeatedly adapts existing genres and devises new ones. She designated Ahnen (2015) a “Zeitreisetagebuch”—journal of a voyage through time—in which she delves into the life of her great-grandfather, a well-regarded writer and theologian whose own son became an ardent Nazi. Weber unflinchingly explores her forebears but also her own values and choices. Her own relationship to Germany, where she was born, and to France, where she’s lived since her late teens, resonates with me as a lifelong student of both languages and cultures. Unusually, Weber is an established literary translator in both directions between German and French, including of her own work. I shall thus translate Ahnen from German while continually considering and at times drawing on Weber’s own translation into French, Vaterland. At a time when the European idea is under threat, the innovative work of this bilingual writer committed to confronting the truth about our shared past demands to be widely read.