AWARDS Joel Agee has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.   In 1999 he won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/wol/rec/1999/enindex.htm   In 2005 he received the Modern Language Association's Lois Roth Award for his translation of Hans Erich Nossack's The End: Hamburg 1943. See:    PDF-Download In 2007 he was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and received the ALTA National Translation Award for his translation of the Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In 2008 he received a Holtzbrinck Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.