Cliff Becker (1964-2005) was a lifelong supporter of the literary arts. He began his career at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992 as a literature specialist, was named Acting Director in 1997, and in 1999 became the NEA’s Director of Literature. His tenure as Literature Director was cut short by his untimely death in 2005. The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation was instituted in 2011 to honor his service to literature and literary translation, with White Pine Press as the publisher of the winning manuscripts. ALTA administered the prize from 2015 to 2018, and starting in 2020 the prize has been administered and published by White Pine Press and is chosen from works submitted to the press. 

Year	Translator(s)	Title & Author	Judge(s)	Book	Language
2019	Cole Heinowitz	Bleeding From All 5 Senses by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro	Daniel Borzutzky - Aaron Coleman - Mani Rao		Spanish
2018	Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher	The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin	Diana Thow - Anthony Anemone - Joanna Trzeciak Huss		Russian
2017	Chloe Hill	Purifications or the Sign of Retaliation by Myriam Fraga	Aron Aji - Diana Thow		Portuguese