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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
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The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by the 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. The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."
Winners
| Year awarded | Translator | Book and author | Year and publisher |
| 2012 | Jen Hofer | Negro Marfil/Ivory Black by MyriamMoscona | Les Figues Press |
| 2011 | KhaledMattawa | Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) | Yale University Press, 2010 |
| 2010 | Anne Carson | An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides | Faber & Faber, 2009 |
| 2009 | Marilyn Hacker | King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 |
| 2008 | Rosmarie Waldrop | Lingos I - XI by Ulf Stolterfoht | Burning Deck Press, 2006 |
| 2007 | David Hinton | The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei (17th century poet) | New Directions, 2006 |
| 2006 | Wilson Baldridge | Recumbents by Michel Deguy | Wesleyan, 2005 |
| 2005 | Pierre Joris | Lightduress by Paul Celan | Green Integer, 2004 |
| 2004 | Peter Cole | J'Accuse by AharonShabtai | New Directions, 2003 |
| 2003 | KhaledMattawa | Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef by Saadi Youssef | Graywolf Press, 2002 |
| 2002 | Anne Twitty | Islandia by Maria Negroni | Station Hill, 2001 |
| 2001 | Chana Bloch and ChanaKronfeld | Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai | Harcourt, 2000 |
| 2000 | James Brasfield | The Selected Poems of OlehLysheha by OlehLysheha | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1999 |
| 1999 | Richard Zenith | Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa | Grove/Atlantic, 1998 |
| 1998 | EamonGrennan | Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi | Princeton University Press, 1997 |
| 1997 | Edward Snow | Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 |
| 1996 | Guy Davenport | 7 Greeks by various poets | New Directions, 1995 |
