| Year | Genre | Translator(s) | Title & Author | Judge(s) | Book | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |