PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[1] The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."[2]

Guidelines

The $3,000 award is given to a book-length translation of poetry into English published in the United States the previous year. Up to two translators may work on the book. Translators may be of any nationality.[3]

Winners
Year awardedTranslatorBook and authorPublisher and year
2018[4] Not awarded
2017[5] Simon Armitage Pearl: A New Verse Translation by the Pearl Poet Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company, 2016
2016[6][7]Sawako NakayasuThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika SagawaCanarium Books
2015[8][9]Eliza GriswoldI Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary AfghanistanFarrar, Straus and Giroux
2014[10][11] Karen Emmerich & Edmund KeeleyDiaries of Exile by Yannis RitsosArchipelago
2013[12][13] Molly WeigelThe Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems by Jorge Santiago PerednikAction Books
2012[14] Jen HoferNegro Marfil/Ivory Black by Myriam MosconaLes Figues Press
2011 Khaled MattawaAdonis: Selected Poems by Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber)Yale University Press, 2010
2010 Anne CarsonAn Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides Faber & Faber, 2009
2009 Marilyn HackerKing of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie ÉtienneFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
2008 Rosmarie WaldropLingos I - XI by Ulf StolterfohtBurning Deck Press, 2006
2007 David HintonThe Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei (17th-century poet)New Directions, 2006
2006 Wilson BaldridgeRecumbents by Michel DeguyWesleyan, 2005
2005 Pierre JorisLightduress by Paul CelanGreen Integer, 2004
2004 Peter ColeJ'Accuse by Aharon ShabtaiNew Directions, 2003
2003 Khaled MattawaWithout an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef by Saadi YoussefGraywolf Press, 2002
2002 Anne TwittyIslandia by Maria NegroniStation Hill, 2001
2001 Chana Bloch and Chana KronfeldOpen Closed Open by Yehuda AmichaiHarcourt, 2000
2000 James BrasfieldThe Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha by Oleh LyshehaHarvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1999
1999 Richard ZenithFernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando PessoaGrove/Atlantic, 1998
1998 Eamon GrennanSelected Poems by Giacomo LeopardiPrinceton University Press, 1997
1997 Edward SnowUncollected Poems by Rainer Maria RilkeFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996
1996 Guy Davenport7 Greeks by various poetsNew Directions, 1995

See also

References
  1. Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
  2. Robert Wechsler (1998). "Performing Without a Stage". Performing Without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation. Catbird Press. pp. 278–279.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-03-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". PEN America. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  5. "2017 PEN America Literary Awards Winners - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  6. Maggie Galehouse (March 1, 2016). "PEN Literary Award winners announced". Chron. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  7. "2016 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  8. Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". LA Times. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  9. "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  10. Ron Charles (July 30, 2014). "Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards". Washington Post. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  11. "2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  12. Carolyn Kellogg (August 14, 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  13. "2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  14. "2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
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