| Year | Genre | Translator(s) | Title & Author | Judge(s) | Book | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Poetry | D. M. Black | Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri |
Hélène Cardona - Boris Dralyuk - Archana Venkatesan |
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Italian |
| 2022 | Prose | Martin Aitken | The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard |
Suzanne Jill Levine - Arunava Sinha - Annie Tucker |
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Norwegian |
| 2021 | Poetry | Geoffrey Brock | Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti |
Sinan Antoon - Layla Benitez-James - Sibelan Forrester |
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Italian |
| 2021 | Prose | Tejaswini Niranjana | No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini |
Jennifer Croft - Anton Hur - Annie Janusch |
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Kannada |
| 2020 | Poetry | Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi | Hysteria by Kim Yideum |
Ilya Kaminsky - Lisa Katz - Farid Matuk |
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Korean |
| 2020 | Prose | Jordan Stump | The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye |
Amaia Gabantxo - Emmanuel D. Harris II - William M. Hutchins |
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French |
| 2019 | Poetry | Bill Johnston | Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz |
Anna Deeny Morales - Cole Heinowitz - Sholeh Wolpe |
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Polish |
| 2019 | Prose | Karen Emmerich | What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos |
Bonnie Huie - Jeffrey Zuckerman - Charlotte Mandell |
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Greek |
| 2018 | Poetry | Katrine Øgaard Jensen | Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen |
Kareem James Abu-Zeid - Jennifer Feeley - Sawako Nakayasu |
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Danish |
| 2018 | Prose | Charlotte Mandell | Compass by Mathias Énard |
Esther Allen - Tess Lewis - Jeremy Tiang |
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French |
| 2017 | Poetry | Daniel Borzutzky | Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto |
Ani Gjika - Katrine Øgaard Jensen - Gregory Racz |
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Spanish |
| 2017 | Prose | Esther Allen | Zama by Antonio di Benedetto |
Carol Apollonio - Eric M. B. Becker - Ottilie Mulzet |
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Spanish |
| 2016 | Poetry | Hilary Kaplan | Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas |
Adriana Jacobs - Karen Kovacik - Cole Swensen |
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Portuguese |
| 2016 | Prose | Elizabeth Harris | Tristano Dies: A Life by Antonio Tabucchi |
Karen Emmerich - Andrea Labinger - Marian Schwartz |
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Italian |
| 2015 | Prose | William Hutchins | New Waw, Saharan Oasis by Ibrahim al-Koni |
Pamela Carmell - Jason Grunebaum - Anne Magnan-Park |
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Arabic |
| 2015 | Poetry | Pierre Joris | Breathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan |
Lisa Rose Bradford - Stephen Kessler - Diana Thow |
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French |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |