The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award by the Academy of American Poets, for a published translation of poetry from any language into English. A noted translator chooses the winning book.[1] [2] [3] [4]
It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.[5]
Year | Poet | Book | Judges |
2021 | Maria Dahvana Headley | Beowulf: A New Translation | Indran Amirthanayagam |
2020 | Rajiv Mohabir | I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma | Daniel Borzutzky |
2019 | Clare Cavanagh | Dunya Mikhail | |
2018 | David Larsen | Ammiel Alcalay | |
2017 | Piotr Florczyk | Marilyn Hacker | |
2016 | Ron Padgett | Peter Cole | |
2015 | Roger Greenwald | Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding | Bill Johnston |
2014 | Selected Translations | David Hinton | |
2013 | Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais | Erín Moure | |
2012 | Jen Hofer | Pierre Joris | |
2011 | Jeffrey Angles | Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako | Charles Martin |
2010 | Stephen Kessler | Edith Grossman | |
2009 | C. P. Cavafy Selected Poems | John Balaban | |
2008 | The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo | Jerome Rothenberg | |
2007 | Christopher Merrill | ||
2007 | Christopher Merrill | ||
2006 | Education by Stone: Selected Poems | Willis Barnstone | |
2005 | Daryl Hine[6] | Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns | Mark Strand |
2004 | Charles Martin[7] | Rika Lesser | |
2004 | Anselm Hollo | Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy | Rika Lesser |
2003 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous) | Robert Bly | |
2002 | Carolyn Forché | ||
2001 | Ron Padgett | ||
2001 | Ron Padgett | ||
2000 | Cola Franzen[8] | Marie Ponsot | |
1999 | Selected Translations | William Jay Smith | |
1998 | Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology | Rachel Hadas | |
1997 | David Hinton[9] | Landscape Over Zero by Bei Dao The Late Poems of Meng Chiao The Selected Poems of Lí Po | Rosmarie Waldrop |
1996 | 7 Greeks | Eliot Weinberger | |
1995 | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation | David Ferry | |
1994 | Robert Hass | ||
1993 | The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry | Carolyn Kizer | |
1992 | Edmund Keeley | ||
1992 | Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India | Edmund Keeley | |
1991 | Robert Fagles[10] | The Iliad by Homer | Gregory Rabassa |
1990 | Serge Gavronsky | ||
1989 | Heinrich von Kleist Five Plays | John Hollander | |
1988 | May Swenson | ||
1987 | Mark Anderson | Charles Wright | |
1986 | W. S. Merwin | ||
1985 | New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke | Allen Mandelbaum | |
1984 | Robert Fitzgerald[11] | The Odyssey by Homer | William Arrowsmith |
1984 | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | William Arrowsmith | |
1982 | Richard Howard | ||
1980 | The Book of True Love by Juan Ruis | Charles Simic | |
1980 | Ritsos in Parentheses | Charles Simic | |
1978 | The Poems of François Villon | Mark Strand | |
1978 | The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians | Mark Strand | |
1976 | The Iliad by Homer | Richard Wilbur | |