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. The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."
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.
Winners +PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winnersYearTranslatorTitlePoetPublisherRef.19967 Greeks Various poetsNew Directions1997Uncollected Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux1998Selected Poems Princeton University Press1999Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems Grove Atlantic2000Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute2001 and Chana KronfeldOpen Closed OpenHarcourt2002Islandia Station Hill2003Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef Graywolf Press2004J'Accuse New Directions2005Lightduress Green Integer2006RecumbentsWesleyan 2007 New Directions2008Lingos I - XBurning Deck Press2009King of a Hundred HorsemenFarrar, Straus and Giroux2010AiskhylosFaber & FaberElektra SophoklesFaber & FaberOrestesEuripidesFaber & Faber2011Adonis: Selected Poems Adunis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber)Yale University Press2012Negro Marfil/Ivory BlackLes Figues Press2013Action Books2014 and Edmund KeeleyDiaries of ExileArchipelago2015I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary AfghanistanFarrar, Straus and Giroux2016 Canarium Books2017Pearl: A New Verse TranslationLiveright/W. W. Norton & Company2018No Award2019New York Review Books2020 and Nancy Gates MadsenUgly Duckling Presse2021Raised by Wolves: Poems and ConversationsAmangPhoneme Media2022 and Piotr SommerEverything I Don’t Know2023co-im-press2024The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer Copper Canyon Press2025To The Letter Archipelago Books2026Michael Martin SheaTheory of the Voice and DreamLiliana PonceWorld Poetry Books
See also American poetry List of poetry awards List of literary awards List of years in poetry List of years in literature
References
External links PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, official website.