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.
It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.
Year Poet Book Judges2026 Niloufar Talebi Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou Cynthia Hogue2025 Gabriel Gudding Friends with Everyone by Gunnar Wærness Roger Sedarat2024 Patrizio Ceccagnoli Historiae by Antonella Anedda Valzhyna Mort2024 Susan Stewart Historiae by Antonella Anedda Valzhyna Mort2023 Stephanie McCarter Metamorphoses by Ovid Anna Deeny Morales2022 Adriana X. Jacobs The Truffle Eye by Vaan Nguyen David Shook2021 Maria Dahvana Headley Beowulf: A New Translation Indran Amirthanayagam2020 Rajiv Mohabir I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma Daniel Borzutzky2019 Clare Cavanagh Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski Dunya Mikhail2018 David Larsen Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh Ammiel Alcalay2017 Piotr Florczyk Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska Marilyn Hacker2016 Ron Padgett Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire Peter Cole2015 Roger Greenwald Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding Bill Johnston2014 W. S. Merwin Selected Translations David Hinton2013 Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy Erín Moure2012 Jen Hofer Negro Marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona Pierre Joris2011Jeffrey Angles Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako Charles Martin2010Stephen Kessler Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda Edith Grossman2009 Avi Sharon C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems John Balaban2008 Clayton Eshleman The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo Jerome Rothenberg2007 Robert Fagles The Aeneid by Virgil Christopher Merrill2007 Susanna Nied it by Inger Christensen Christopher Merrill2006 Richard Zenith Education by Stone: Selected Poems Willis Barnstone2005 Daryl Hinehttp://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=22113 Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns Mark Strand2004 Charles Martin Metamorphoses by Ovid Rika Lesser2004 Anselm Hollo Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy Rika Lesser2003 W. S. Merwin Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous) Robert Bly2002 David Ferry The Epistles of Horace by Horace Carolyn Forché2001 Clayton Eshleman Trilce by César Vallejo Ron Padgett2001 Edward Snow Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke Ron Padgett2000 Cola Franzen Horses in the Air by Jorge Guillén Marie Ponsot1999 W. D. Snodgrass Selected Translations William Jay Smith1998 Louis Simpson Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology Rachel Hadas1997 David Hinton Landscape Over Zero by Bei Dao The Late Poems of Meng ChiaoThe Selected Poems of Lí Po Rosmarie Waldrop1996 Guy Davenport 7 Greeks Eliot Weinberger1995 Robert Pinsky The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation David Ferry1994 Rosmarie Waldrop The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabès Robert Hass1993 Charles Simic The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry Carolyn Kizer1992 John DuVal The Discovery of America by Cesare Pascarella Edmund Keeley1992 Andrew Schelling Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India Edmund Keeley1991 Robert Fagles The Iliad by Homer Gregory Rabassa1990 Stephen Mitchell Variable Directions by Dan Pagis Serge Gavronsky1989 Martin Greenberg (poet) Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays John Hollander1988 Peter Hargitai Perched on Nothing's Branch by Attila József May Swenson1987 Mark Anderson In the Storm of Roses by Ingeborg Bachmann Charles Wright1986 William Arrowsmith The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale W. S. Merwin1985 Edward Snow New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Allen Mandelbaum1984 Robert Fitzgerald The Odyssey by Homer William Arrowsmith1984 Stephen Mitchell The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke William Arrowsmith1982 Rika Lesser Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelöf Richard Howard1980 Saralyn R. Daly The Book of True Love by Juan Ruis Charles Simic1980 Edmund Keeley Ritsos in Parentheses Charles Simic1978 Galway Kinnell The Poems of François Villon Mark Strand1978 Howard Norman The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians Mark Strand1976 Robert Fitzgerald The Iliad by Homer Richard Wilbur
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