PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
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The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation honors a poetry translation published in the preceding year.

The award is separate from the similar PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is an annual award given 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....

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Winners

Year awarded Translator Book and author Year and publisher
2010 Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

 
An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra
Electra (Sophocles)
Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan...

 by Sophokles; Orestes
Orestes (play)
Orestes is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.-Background:...

 by Euripides
Euripides
Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

Faber & Faber, 2009
2009 Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

 
King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne
Marie Etienne
Marie Étienne is a French poet and novelist. In 2009, her book Roi des cent cavaliers and now translated into English as King of a Hundred Horseman won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation...

 
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy...

, 2008
2008 Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...

 
Lingos I - XI by Ulf Stolterfoht  Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck is a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961.-Overview:...

, 2006
2004 Peter Cole
Peter Cole
Peter Cole is an American Jewish poet who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.-Early life:Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981.-Literary career:...

 
J'Accuse by Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets, as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew.-Biography:...

 
New Directions, 2003
2003 Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English...

 
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef by Saadi Youssef
Saadi Youssef
Saadi Yousef is an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He has published thirty volumes of poetry and seven books of prose.-Life:Saadi Yousef studied Arabic literature in Baghdad...

 
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded on a dedication to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture, Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.Now...

, 2002
2002 Anne Twitty  Islandia by Maria Negroni
María Negroni
María Negroni is an Argentinian poet, essayist, novelist and translator.She graduated from Columbia University, with a PhD in Latin American Literature.She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College...

 
Station Hill, 2001
2001 Chana Bloch
Chana Bloch
Chana Bloch is an American poet, translator, and scholar. She is a professor emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, California.-Life and work:...

, Chana Kronfeld 
Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....

 
Harcourt, 2000
2000 James Brasfield
James Brasfield
James Brasfield is an American poet and translator.-Life:He graduated from Armstrong State College, and Columbia University, with an MFA....

, Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha is a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and...

 
The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha by Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha is a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and...

 
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2000
1999 Richard Zenith
Richard Zenith
Richard Zenith is an American writer and translator.-Awards:* 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship* 2006 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award-Reviews:...

 
Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...

 
Grove/Atlantic, 1999
1998 Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004....

 
Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...

 
Princeton University Press, 1997
1997 Edward Snow
Edward Snow
Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.-Life:He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D....

 
Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

 
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996
1996 Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.-Life:...

 
7 Greeks by various poets (New Directions, 1995)

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