The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to spotlight the judges of the 2023 awards!

We are honored to have these judges serving in 2023 on the panels of the National Translation Awards (NTA) in Prose and Poetry, the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), and the ALTA Travel Fellowships.

To learn more about each award and the judges, read below. For individual judges’ bios, photo credits, and image descriptions, click the provided links.

October 6, 2022—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 National Translation Award (NTA) in Poetry! 2022 marks the twenty-fourth year for the NTA, and the eighth year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose. The NTA, which is administered by ALTA, is the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.

October 6, 2022—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA). This award, which was inaugurated in 2022, is offered by the American Literary Translators Association in conjunction with the Spain-USA Foundation.

October 6, 2022—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Italian Prose in Translation Award! Starting in 2015, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This prize is awarded annually to a translator of a recent work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction).