PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winners^[4]

Year	Translator	Title	Poet	Publisher	Ref.
1996	Guy Davenport	7 Greeks	Various poets	New Directions
1997	Edward Snow	Uncollected Poems	Rainer Maria Rilke	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1998	Eamon Grennan	Selected Poems	Giacomo Leopardi	Princeton University Press
1999	Richard Zenith	Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems	Fernando Pessoa	Grove Atlantic
2000	James Brasfield	The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha	Oleh Lysheha	Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
2001	Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld	Open Closed Open	Yehuda Amichai	Harcourt
2002	Anne Twitty	Islandia	Maria Negroni	Station Hill
2003	Khaled Mattawa	Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef	Saadi Youssef	Graywolf Press
2004	Peter Cole	J'Accuse	Aharon Shabtai	New Directions
2005	Pierre Joris	Lightduress	Paul Celan	Green Integer
2006	Wilson Baldridge	Recumbents	Michel Deguy	Wesleyan
2007	David Hinton	The Selected Poems of Wang Wei	Wang Wei	New Directions
2008	Rosmarie Waldrop	Lingos I - X	Ulf Stolterfoht	Burning Deck Press
2009	Marilyn Hacker	King of a Hundred Horsemen	Marie Étienne	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2010	Anne Carson	An Oresteia: Agamemnon	Aiskhylos	Faber & Faber	[5]
		Elektra	Sophokles	Faber & Faber
		Orestes	Euripides	Faber & Faber
2011	Khaled Mattawa	Adonis: Selected Poems	Adunis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber)	Yale University Press
2012	Jen Hofer	Negro Marfil/Ivory Black	Myriam Moscona	Les Figues Press	[6]
2013	Molly Weigel	The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems	Jorge Santiago Perednik	Action Books	[7][8][9]
2014	Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley	Diaries of Exile	Yannis Ritsos	Archipelago	[10][11][12]
2015	Eliza Griswold	I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan		Farrar, Straus and Giroux	[13][14][15]
2016	Sawako Nakayasu	The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa	Chika Sagawa	Canarium Books	[16][17][18]
2017	Simon Armitage	Pearl: A New Verse Translation	The Pearl Poet	Liveright/W. W. Norton & Company	[19][20]
2018	No Award				[21]
2019	Richard Sieburth	A Certain Plume	Henri Michaux	New York Review Books	[22]
2020	Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen	The Winter Garden Photograph	Reina María Rodríguez	Ugly Duckling Presse	[23]
2021	Steve Bradbury	Raised by Wolves: Poems and Conversations	Amang	Phoneme Media	[24][25]
2022	Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer	Everything I Don’t Know	Jerzy Ficowski		[26]
2023	Daniel Borzutzky	The Loose Pearl	Paula Ilabaca Nuñez	co-im-press	[27]

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature