PEN Translation Prize

The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN America and the Book of the Month Club since 1963. It was the first award in the United States expressly for literary translators.[1] A 1999 New York Times article called it "the Academy Award of Translation" and that the award is thus usually not given to younger translators.[2]

The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $3,000. Any book-length English translation published in the United States during the year in question is eligible, irrespective of the residence or nationality of either the translator or the original author.[3]

The award is separate from the similar PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

The PEN Translation Prize was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."[4] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[5]

Winners
YearTranslatorBook and authorLanguage
2020 Allison Markin Powell The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami Japanese
2019 Martin Aitken Love by Hanne Ørstavik Norwegian
2018[6][7][8] Len Rix Katalin Street by Magda Szabó Hungarian
2017[9] Tess Lewis Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap German
2016[10][11]Katrina DodsonThe Complete Stories by Clarice LispectorPortuguese
2015[12][13]Denise NewmanBaboon by Naja Marie AidtDanish
2014[14][15] Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai FormozovAutobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskyRussian
2013[16][17] Donald O. WhiteThe Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis ThelenGerman
2012[18] Bill JohnstonStone Upon Stone by Wieslaw MysliwskiPolish
2011[19] Ibrahim MuhawiJournal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud DarwishArabic
2010[20] Michael Henry HeimWonder by Hugo ClausDutch
2009[21] Natasha Wimmer2666 by Roberto BolañoSpanish
2008[22] Margaret Jull CostaThe Maias by Eça de QueirósPortuguese
2007 Sandra SmithSuite Française by Irène NémirovskyFrench
2006 Philip GabrielKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiJapanese
2005 Tim WilkinsonFatelessness by Imre KertészHungarian
2004 Margaret Sayers PedenSepharad by Antonio Muñoz MolinaSpanish
2003 R.W. FlintThe Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare PaveseItalian
2002 Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyRussian
2001 Tiina NunnallyThe Cross by Sigrid UndsetNorwegian
2000 Richard SieburthSelected Writings by Gérard de NervalFrench
1999 Michael HofmannThe String of Pearls by Joseph RothGerman
1998 Peter ConstantineSix Early Stories by Thomas MannGerman
1997 Arnold PomeransThe Letters of Vincent van GoghDutch
1996 Stanisław Barańczak and Clare CavanaghView With a Grain of Sand by Wisława SzymborskaPolish
1995 Burton WatsonSelected Poems of Su Tung-p'oChinese
1994 Bill Zavatsky and Zack RogowEarthlight by André BretonFrench
1993 Thomas HoisingtonThe Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy KrasickiPolish
1992 David RosenbergA Poet's BibleHebrew
1991 Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyRussian
1990 William WeaverFoucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoItalian
1989 Matthew WardThe Stranger by Albert CamusFrench
1988 Madeline Levine and Francine ProseA Scrap of Time by Ida FinkPolish
1987 John E. WoodsPerfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick SüskindGerman
1986
(prose)		 Barbara BrayThe Lover by Marguerite DurasFrench
1986
(verse)		 Dennis TedlockPopul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of LifeQuiché
1985
(prose)		 Helen R. LaneThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaSpanish
1985
(verse)		 Seamus HeaneySweeney AstrayIrish
1984 William WeaverThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoItalian
1983 Richard WilburFour Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives by MolièreFrench
1982 Hiroaki Sato and Burton WatsonFrom the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese PoetryJapanese
1981 John E. WoodsEvening Edged in Gold by Arno SchmidtGerman
1980 Charles SimicHomage to the Lame Wolf by Vasko PopaSerbian
1979 Charles WrightThe Storm and Other Poems by Eugenio MontaleItalian
1979 Adrienne FoulkeOne Way or Another by Leonardo SciasciaItalian
1977 Gregory RabassaThe Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García MárquezSpanish
1976 Richard HowardA Short History of Decay by E. M. CioranFrench
1975 Helen R. LaneCount Julian by Juan GoytisoloSpanish
1974 Hardie St. Martin and Leonard MadesThe Obscene Bird of Night by José DonosoSpanish
1973 J. P. McCulloughThe Poems of Sextus PropertiusLatin
1972 Richard Winston and Clara WinstonLetters of Thomas MannGerman
1971 Max HaywardHope Against Hope by Nadezhda MandelstamRussian
1970 Sidney AlexanderThe History of Italy by Francesco GuicciardiniItalian
1969 W. S. MerwinSelected Translations 1948-1968Various
1968 Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks (eds.)Modern Russian PoetryRussian
1967 Harriet de OnisSagarana by João Guimarães RosaPortuguese
1966 Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian MitchellMarat/Sade by Peter WeissGerman
1965 Joseph BarnesThe Story of a Life by Konstantin PaustovskyRussian
1964 Ralph ManheimThe Tin Drum by Günter GrassGerman
1963 Archibald ColquhounThe Viceroys by Federico de RobertoItalian

See also

References
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  2. EDWARD LEWINE (January 17, 1999). "MAKING IT WORK; The Man Who Tracked Down Chekhov". New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  3. "Pen Translation Prize". pen.org. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. Robert Wechsler (1998). "Performing Without a Stage". Performing Without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation. Catbird Press. pp. 278–279.
  5. Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
  6. John Maher (February 21, 2018). "Long Soldier, Zhang, Le Guin Win At 2018 PEN Literary Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  7. "The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  8. Porter Anderson (January 31, 2018). "Industry Notes: PEN America's Finalists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
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  13. "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  14. Ron Charles (July 30, 2014). "Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards". Washington Post. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  15. "2014 PEN Translation Prize". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
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  18. "2012 PEN Translation Prize". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  19. "2011 PEN Translation Prize". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
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  21. "2009 PEN Translation Prize". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
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