The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is a prize that recognizes the best translation into English of book-length texts of Asian poetry or Zen Buddhism. It was established by an anonymous donor in 2010, and is named for Lucien Stryk, the American Zen poet and translator.
The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the National Translation Award (NTA) in Prose and Poetry, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), and the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). These awards are announced and honored at the annual ALTA conference held each fall. The winner receives $6,000.
About the prize The prize is named after Lucien Stryk, an internationally acclaimed translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen poetry, Zen poet, and former professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Although primarily intended to recognize the translation of contemporary works, re-translations, or first-time translations of important older works, are also considered. Eligible works include book-length translations into English of Asian poetry, or source texts from Zen Buddhism, book-length translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Kannada, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English. Submitted works must have been published in the previous calendar year.
Winners of the prize Year Translator(s) Book and Author Language Ref(s)2024Li Wen-chi and Colin BramwellDecapitated PoetryChineseDecapitated Poetry: The 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize book talk, SOAS, https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/decapitated-poetry-2024-lucien-stryk-asian-translation-prize-book-talk Retrieved 17 Feb 20252023Wong MayIn the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang DynastyChinese2022Jae KimCold Candies, by Lee Young-juKorean2021Archana VenkatesanEndless Song, translation of Thiruvaymozhi by NammalvarTamil2020Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie ChoiHysteria by Kim YideumKorean2019Don Mee ChoiAutobiography of Death by Kim HyesoonKorean2018 Bonnie Huie Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin Chinese 2017 Jennifer Feeley Not Written Words by Xi Xi Chinese 2016 Sawako Nakayasu The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika Sagawa Japanese 2015 Eleanor Goodman Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni Chinese 2014 Jonathan Chaves Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing Chinese 2013 Lucas Klein Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan Chinese 2012 Don Mee Choi All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon Korean 2011 Charles Egan Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China Chinese 2010Red Pine (Bill Porter) In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu by Wei Ying-wu Chinese
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