National Translation Award Winners

National Translation Award Winners

Year Genre Translator(s) Title & Author Judge(s) Book Language
2023 Poetry Robyn Creswell The Threshold
by Iman Mersal
Pauline Fan
-
Heather Green
-
Shook
Arabic
2023 Prose Nguyễn An Lý Chinatown
by Thuận
Natascha Bruce
-
Shelley Frisch
-
Jason Grunebaum
-
Sawad Hussain
-
Lytton Smith
Vietnamese
2022 Poetry D. M. Black Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
Hélène Cardona
-
Boris Dralyuk
-
Archana Venkatesan
Italian
2022 Prose Martin Aitken The Morning Star
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Suzanne Jill Levine
-
Arunava Sinha
-
Annie Tucker
Norwegian
2021 Poetry Geoffrey Brock Allegria
by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Sinan Antoon
-
Layla Benitez-James
-
Sibelan Forrester
Italian
2021 Prose Tejaswini Niranjana No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
by Jayant Kaikini
Jennifer Croft
-
Anton Hur
-
Annie Janusch
Kannada
2020 Poetry Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi Hysteria
by Kim Yideum
Ilya Kaminsky
-
Lisa Katz
-
Farid Matuk
Korean
2020 Prose Jordan Stump The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel
by Marie NDiaye
Amaia Gabantxo
-
Emmanuel D. Harris II
-
William M. Hutchins
French
2019 Poetry Bill Johnston Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania
by Adam Mickiewicz
Anna Deeny Morales
-
Cole Heinowitz
-
Sholeh Wolpe
Polish
2019 Prose Karen Emmerich What's Left of the Night
by Ersi Sotiropoulos
Bonnie Huie
-
Jeffrey Zuckerman
-
Charlotte Mandell
Greek
2018 Poetry Katrine Øgaard Jensen Third-Millennium Heart
by Ursula Andkjær Olsen
Kareem James Abu-Zeid
-
Jennifer Feeley
-
 Sawako Nakayasu
Danish
2018 Prose Charlotte Mandell Compass
by Mathias Énard
Esther Allen
-
Tess Lewis
-
Jeremy Tiang
French
2017 Poetry Daniel Borzutzky Valdivia
by Galo Ghigliotto
Ani Gjika
-
Katrine Øgaard Jensen
-
Gregory Racz
Spanish
2017 Prose Esther Allen Zama
by Antonio di Benedetto
Carol Apollonio
-
Eric M. B. Becker
-
Ottilie Mulzet
Spanish
2016 Poetry Hilary Kaplan Rilke Shake
by Angélica Freitas
Adriana Jacobs
-
Karen Kovacik
-
Cole Swensen
Portuguese
2016 Prose Elizabeth Harris Tristano Dies: A Life
by Antonio Tabucchi
Karen Emmerich
-
Andrea Labinger
-
Marian Schwartz
Italian
2015 Prose William Hutchins New Waw, Saharan Oasis
by Ibrahim al-Koni
Pamela Carmell
-
Jason Grunebaum
-
Anne Magnan-Park
Arabic
2015 Poetry Pierre Joris Breathturn into Timestead
by Paul Celan
Lisa Rose Bradford
-
Stephen Kessler
-
Diana Thow
French

2015 marked the first year in which two separate National Translation Awards were given, one for poetry and one for prose.

Year Genre Translator(s) Title & Author Language
2014 Poetry Eugene Ostashevsky & Matvei Yankelevich An Invitation for Me to Think
by Alexander Vvedensky
Russian
2013 Prose Poetry Philip Boehm The Hunger Angel
by Herta Müller
German
2012 Poetry Sinan Antoon In the Presence of Absence
by Mahmoud Darwish
Arabic
2011 Poetry Lisa Rose Bradford Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter
by Juan Gelman
Spanish
2010 Prose Alex Zucker All This Belongs to Me
by Petra Hůlová
Czech
2009 Poetry Norman R. Shapiro French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen
(anthology)
French
2008 Drama Richard Wilbur The Theatre of Illusion
by Pierre Corneille
French
2007 Prose Joel Agee The Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
German (Swiss)
2006 Prose Ellen Elias-Bursać Götz and Meyer
by David Albahari
Serbian
2005 Poetry Vincent Katz The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
by Sextus Propertius
Latin
2004 Prose Aron Aji The Garden of Departed Cats
by Bilge Karasu
Turkish
2003 Poetry Jo Anne Engelbert The Return of the River
by Roberto Sosa
Spanish
2002 Poetry E.H. & A.M. Blackmore Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
by Victor Hugo
French
2001 Prose Danuta Borchardt Ferdydurke
by Witold Gombrowicz
Polish
2000 Prose Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Lin Notes of a Desolate Man
by Chu Tien-wen
Chinese
1999 Prose Peter Constantine The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty/Eight New Stories
by Anton Chekhov
Russian
1998 Poetry Carolyn Tipton To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti
by Rafael Alberti
Spanish