PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Appearance
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly 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.[1] The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."[2]
Guidelines
The $3,000 award is given to a book-length translation of poetry into English published in the United States the previous year. Up to two translators may work on the book. Translators may be of any nationality.[3]
Winners
Year awarded | Translator | Book and author | Publisher and year |
2018[4] | Not awarded | ||
2017[5] | Simon Armitage | Pearl: A New Verse Translation by the Pearl Poet | Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company, 2016 |
2016[6][7] | Sawako Nakayasu | The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika Sagawa | Canarium Books |
2015[8][9] | Eliza Griswold | I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2014[10][11] | Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley | Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos | Archipelago |
2013[12][13] | Molly Weigel | The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik | Action Books |
2012[14] | Jen Hofer | Negro Marfil/Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona | Les Figues Press |
2011 | Khaled Mattawa | 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 Aharon Shabtai | New Directions, 2003 |
2003 | Khaled Mattawa | 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 Chana Kronfeld | Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai | Harcourt, 2000 |
2000 | James Brasfield | The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha by Oleh Lysheha | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1999 |
1999 | Richard Zenith | Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa | Grove/Atlantic, 1998 |
1998 | Eamon Grennan | 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 |
See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literary awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
References
- ^ Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
- ^ Robert Wechsler (1998). "Performing Without a Stage". Performing Without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation. Catbird Press. pp. 278–279.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". PEN America. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
- ^ "2017 PEN America Literary Awards Winners - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ^ Maggie Galehouse (March 1, 2016). "PEN Literary Award winners announced". Chron. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ "2016 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015). "PEN announces award-winners and shortlists". LA Times. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ^ "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". pen.org. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ^ Ron Charles (July 30, 2014). "Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards". Washington Post. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ "2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ Carolyn Kellogg (August 14, 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ "2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ "2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation". pen.org. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
External links
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, official website.