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 |
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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 |