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PEN Translation Prize
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The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by the PEN American Center to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN American Center and the Book of the Month Club since 1963. It was the first award in the United States expressly for literary translators. A 1999 New York Times article called it "the Academy Award of translation" and that the award is thus usually not given to younger translators.[2]
The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $3,000. Any book-length English translation published in the United States during the year in question is eligible, irrespective of the residence or nationality of either the translator or the original author.
The award is separate from the similar PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
The PEN Translation Prize was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."[3] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.
The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $3,000. Any book-length English translation published in the United States during the year in question is eligible, irrespective of the residence or nationality of either the translator or the original author.
The award is separate from the similar PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
The PEN Translation Prize was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."[3] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.
Winners
| Year | Translator | Book and author | Language |
| 2012 | Bill Johnston | Stone Upon Stone by WieslawMysliwski | Polish |
| 2011 | Ibrahim Muhawi | Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish | Arabic |
| 2010 | Michael Henry Heim | Wonder by Hugo Claus | Dutch |
| 2009 | Natasha Wimmer | 2666 by Roberto Bolaño | Spanish |
| 2008 | Margaret Jull Costa | The Maias by Eça de Queirós | Portuguese |
| 2007 | Sandra Smith | Suite Française by IrèneNémirovsky | French |
| 2006 | Philip Gabriel | Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami | Japanese |
| 2005 | Tim Wilkinson | Fatelessness by ImreKertész | Hungarian |
| 2004 | Margaret Sayers Peden | Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina | Spanish |
| 2003 | R.W. Flint | The Moon and the Bonfires by CesarePavese | Italian |
| 2002 | Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Russian |
| 2001 | TiinaNunnally | The Cross by Sigrid Undset | Norwegian |
| 2000 | Richard Sieburth | Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval | French |
| 1999 | Michael Hofmann | The String of Pearls by Joseph Roth | German |
| 1998 | Peter Constantine | Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann | German |
| 1997 | Arnold Pomerans | The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh | Dutch |
| 1996 | Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh | View With a Grain of Sand by WisławaSzymborska | Polish |
| 1995 | Burton Watson | Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o | Chinese |
| 1994 | Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow | Earthlight by André Breton | French |
| 1993 | Thomas Hoisington | The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by IgnacyKrasicki | Polish |
| 1992 | David Rosenberg | The Poet's Bible | Hebrew |
| 1991 | Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Russian |
| 1990 | William Weaver | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco | Italian |
| 1989 | Matthew Ward | The Stranger by Albert Camus | French |
| 1988 | Madeline Levine and Francine Prose | A Scrap of Time by Ida Fink | Polish |
| 1987 | John E. Woods | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind | German |
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1986 (prose) |
Barbara Bray | The Lover by Marguerite Duras | French |
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1986 (verse) |
Dennis Tedlock | PopulVuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life | Quiché |
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1985 (prose) |
Helen R. Lane | The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa | Spanish |
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1985 (verse) |
Seamus Heaney | Sweeney Astray | Irish |
| 1984 | William Weaver | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Italian |
| 1983 | Richard Wilbur | Four Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives by Molière | French |
| 1982 | Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson | From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry | Japanese |
| 1981 | John E. Woods | Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt | German |
| 1980 | Charles Simic | Homage to the Lame Wolf by Vasco Popa | |
| 1979 | Charles Wright | The Storm and Other Poems by Eugenio Montale | Italian |
| 1979 | Adrienne Foulke | One Way or Another by Leonardo Sciascia | Italian |
| 1977 | Gregory Rabassa | The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez | Spanish |
| 1976 | Richard Howard | A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran | French |
| 1975 | Helen R. Lane | Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo | Spanish |
| 1974 | Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades | The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso | Spanish |
| 1973 | J. P. McCullough | The Poems of Sextus Propertius | Latin |
| 1972 | Richard Winston and Clara Winston | Letters of Thomas Mann | German |
| 1971 | Max Hayward | Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam | Russian |
| 1970 | Sidney Alexander | The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini | Italian |
| 1969 | W. S. Merwin | Selected Translations 1948-1968 | Various |
| 1968 | Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks (eds.) | Modern Russian Poetry | Russian |
| 1967 | Harriet de Onis | Sagarana by JoãoGuimarães Rosa | Portuguese |
| 1966 | Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell | Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss | German |
| 1965 | Joseph Barnes | The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky | Russian |
| 1964 | Ralph Manheim | The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | German |
| 1963 | Archibald Colquhoun | The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto | Italian |
