PEN Translation Prize

The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN America 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", stating that the award is thus usually not given to younger translators.

The distinction comes with a cash prize of US$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." 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 +PEN Translation Prize winnersYearTranslatorAuthorTitleOriginal titleLanguageRef.1963Italian1964German1965Повесть о жизниRussian1966 and Adrian MitchellMarat/SadeGerman1967Sagarana: The DuelSagarana, o DueloPortuguese1968 and Merrill Sparks (eds.)Modern Russian PoetryRussian1969Selected Translations 1948-1968Various1970Storia d'ItaliaItalian1971Hope Against HopeВоспоминанияRussian1972 and Clara WinstonLetters of Thomas MannGerman1973Latin1974 and Leonard MadesSpanish1975Count JulianReivindicación del conde don JuliánSpanish1976Précis de décompositionFrench1977Spanish1979One Way or AnotherTodo modoItalian1979Italian1980Homage to the Lame WolfSerbian1981Evening Edged in GoldAbend mit GoldrandGerman1982 and Burton WatsonFrom the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese PoetryJapanese1983MolièreFour Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, Les Femmes savantes, L'école des femmesFrench1984Italian1985 (prose)Spanish1985 (verse)Sweeney AstrayBuile ShuibhneIrish1986 (prose)L'AmantFrench1986 (verse)Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of LifePopol vohQuiché1987Perfume: The Story of a MurdererGerman1988 and Francine ProseSkrawek czasuPolish1989L'ÉtrangerFrench1990Foucault's PendulumItalian1991 and Larissa VolokhonskyБратья КарамазовыRussian1992Hebrew1993Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadkiPolish1994 and Zack RogowEarthlightClair de terreFrench1995Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'oChinese1996 and Clare CavanaghView With a Grain of SandWidok z ziarnkiem piaskuPolish1997Dutch1998Six Early StoriesGerman1999German2000Selected WritingsFrench2001KorsetNorwegian2002 and Larissa VolokhonskyAnna KareninaАнна КаренинаRussian2003Italian2004SepharadSefaradSpanish2005FatelessnessSorstalanságHungarian2006Kafka on the Shore海辺のカフカJapanese2007Suite françaiseFrench2008Portuguese20092666Spanish2010WonderDutch2011Journal of an Ordinary GriefArabic2012Stone Upon StoneKamień na kamieniuPolish2013German2014 and Nikolai FormozovAutobiography of a CorpseАвтобиография трупаRussian2015BaboonBavianDanish2016Todas as CrónicasPortuguese2017Angel of OblivionEngel des VergessensGerman2018Katalin StreetKatalin utcaHungarian2019LoveKjærlighetNorwegian2020ニシノユキヒコの恋と冒険Japanese2021French2022Migratory BirdsAves migratoriasSpanish2023People from BloomingtonOrang-orang BloomingtonIndonesian2025VerdigrisVerderameItalian2026The Leucothea DialoguesDialoghi con LeucòItalian

See also PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants

References

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