PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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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]

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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

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winners [4]
YearTranslatorTitlePoetPublisherRef.
1996 Guy Davenport 7 GreeksVarious poets New Directions
1997 Edward Snow Uncollected Poems Rainer Maria Rilke Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1998 Eamon Grennan Selected Poems Giacomo Leopardi Princeton University Press
1999 Richard Zenith Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems Fernando Pessoa Grove Atlantic
2000 James Brasfield The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha Oleh Lysheha Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
2001 Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld Open Closed Open Yehuda Amichai Harcourt
2002 Anne Twitty Islandia Maria Negroni Station Hill
2003 Khaled Mattawa Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef Saadi Youssef Graywolf Press
2004 Peter Cole J'Accuse Aharon Shabtai New Directions
2005 Pierre Joris Lightduress Paul Celan Green Integer
2006 Wilson Baldridge Recumbents Michel Deguy Wesleyan
2007 David Hinton The Selected Poems of Wang WeiWang Wei New Directions
2008 Rosmarie Waldrop Lingos I - X Ulf Stolterfoht Burning Deck Press
2009 Marilyn Hacker King of a Hundred Horsemen Marie Étienne Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2010 Anne Carson An Oresteia: Agamemnon Aiskhylos Faber & Faber [5]
Elektra Sophokles Faber & Faber
Orestes Euripides Faber & Faber
2011 Khaled Mattawa Adonis: Selected Poems Adunis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) Yale University Press
2012 Jen Hofer Negro Marfil/Ivory Black Myriam Moscona Les Figues Press [6]
2013 Molly Weigel The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems Jorge Santiago Perednik Action Books [7] [8] [9]
2014 Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley Diaries of Exile Yannis Ritsos Archipelago [10] [11] [12]
2015 Eliza Griswold I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan Farrar, Straus and Giroux [13] [14] [15]
2016 Sawako Nakayasu The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa Chika Sagawa Canarium Books [16] [17] [18]
2017 Simon Armitage Pearl: A New Verse Translation The Pearl Poet Liveright/W. W. Norton & Company [19] [20]
2018 No Award [21]
2019 Richard Sieburth A Certain Plume Henri Michaux New York Review Books [22]
2020 Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen The Winter Garden Photograph Reina María Rodríguez Ugly Duckling Presse [23]
2021 Steve Bradbury Raised by Wolves: Poems and ConversationsAmang Phoneme Media [24] [25]
2022 Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer Everything I Don’t Know Jerzy Ficowski [26]
2023 Daniel Borzutzky The Loose Pearl Paula Ilabaca Nuñez co-im-press [27]

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