National Translation Award

Given by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

54 Works 13,655 Books 227 Reviews ½ 4.0
The National Translation Award is an annual prize given by the American Literary Translators Association to an exceptional translation of a book-length work published in the preceding calendar year. show more As of 2010 the prize is worth $5,000. The award is usually given to translations of previously untranslated contemporary works or first-time translations of older works, but important re-translations have also been honored. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (31), Longlist (23)
Categories:
All, Poetry (20), Prose (19), No Category (15)
Years:
All, 2023 (23), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1)
Announced:
September 1: Longlist2023 Recent

Winner 31

WorkCategoryYear
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
D. M. Black
Poetry2022
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård
Martin Aitken
Prose2022
Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Geoffrey Brock
Poetry2021
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant KaikiniProse2021
Hysteria by Kim Yideum
Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi
Poetry2020
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye
Jordan Stump
Prose2020
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
Bill Johnston
Poetry2019
What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos
Karen Emmerich
Prose2019
Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjaer OlsenPoetry2018
Compass by Mathias Énard
Charlotte Mandell
Prose2018
Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto
Daniel Borzutzky
Poetry2017
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
Esther Allen
Prose2017
Rilke Shake (Poesia de Bolso) (Portuguese Edition) by Angélica Freitas
Hilary Kaplan
Poetry2016
Tristano Dies by Antonio Tabucchi
Elizabeth Harris
Prose2016
Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (German Edition) by Paul Celan
Pierre Joris
Poetry2015
New Waw, Saharan Oasis (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) by Ibrahim al-Koni
William Hutchins
Prose2015
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
Philip Boehm
2013
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
Sinan Antoon
2012
All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulova
Alex Zucker
2010
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen by Norman R. Shapiro
Norman R. Shapiro
2009
The Cid ; Cinna ; The theatrical illusion by Pierre Corneille
Richard Wilbur
2008
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Joel Agee
2007
Götz and Meyer by David Albahari
Ellen Elias-Bursac
2006
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
Vincent Katz
2005
The Garden of the Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu
Aron Aji
2004
Return of the River: The Selected Poems of Roberto Sosa by Roberto Sosa
Jo Anne Engelbert
2003
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo
E.H. and A.M. Blackmore
2002
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Danuta Borchardt
2001
Notes of a Desolate Man by T'ien-wen Chu
Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Lin
2000
The Undiscovered Chekhov: Fifty-one New Stories by Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Peter Constantine
1999
To Painting by Rafael Alberti
Carolyn Tipton
1998

Longlist 23

WorkCategoryYear
Tideline (New Polish Writing) by Krystyna Dąbrowska
Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Mira Rosenthal
Poetry2023
When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me by Ananda Devi
Kazim Ali
Poetry2023
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
Poetry2023
Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi
Brian Sneeden
Poetry2023
Underfoot by Nillas Holmberg
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs & Johanna Domokos
Poetry2023
The Water People (Gens de l'eau) by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Marilyn Hacker
Poetry2023
Names and Rivers by Shuri Kido
Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander
Poetry2023
The Threshold: Poems by Iman Mersal
Robyn Creswell
Poetry2023
The Rust of History by Sotero Rivera Avilés
Raquel Salas Rivera
Poetry2023
claus and the scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Poetry2023
Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Nelly Sachs
Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall
Poetry2023
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century by May Wong
Wong May
Poetry2023
I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To: Stories by Mikołaj Grynberg
Sean Gasper Bye
Prose2023
So Distant From My Life by Monique Ilboudo
Yarri Kamara
Prose2023
Stories Of The True by Jeyamohan
Priyamvada Ramkumar
Prose2023
Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin Kim
Jamie Chang
Prose2023
Spadework for a Palace by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
John Batki
Prose2023
Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Tiffany Tsao
Prose2023
Valli by Sheela Tomy
Jayasree Kalathil
Prose2023
The Antarctica of Love by Sara Stridsberg
Jeremy Tiang
Prose2023
Chinatown by Thuận
Nguyễn An Lý
Prose2023
1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel
Priscilla Layne
Prose2023
Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas by Shahidul Zahir
V. Ramaswamy and Shahroza Nahrin
Prose2023

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