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][5]
It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.[6]
Year | Poet | Book | Judges |
2009 | Avi Sharon | C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems | John Balaban |
2008 | Clayton Eshleman | The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo | Jerome Rothenberg |
2007 | Robert Fagles | The Aeneid, Virgil | Christopher Merrill |
2007 | Susanna Nied | it, Inger Christensen | Christopher Merrill |
2006 | Richard Zenith | Education by Stone: Selected Poems | Willis Barnstone |
2005 | Daryl Hine[7] | Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns | Mark Strand |
2004 | Charles Martin[8] | Metamorphoses, Ovid | Rika Lesser |
2004 | Anselm Hollo | Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy | Rika Lesser |
2003 | W. S. Merwin | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous | Robert Bly |
2002 | David Ferry | The Epistles of Horace, Horace | Carolyn Forché |
2001 | Clayton Eshleman | Trilce, César Vallejo | Ron Padgett |
2001 | Edward Snow | Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke | Ron Padgett |
2000 | Cola Franzen[9] | Horses in the Air, Jorge Guillén | Marie Ponsot |
1999 | W. D. Snodgrass | Selected Translations | William Jay Smith |
1998 | Louis Simpson | Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology | Rachel Hadas |
1997 | David Hinton[10] | Landscape Over Zero, Bei Dao The Late Poems of Meng Chiao The Selected Poems of Lí Po |
Rosmarie Waldrop |
1996 | Guy Davenport | 7 Greeks | Eliot Weinberger |
1995 | Robert Pinsky | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation | David Ferry |
1994 | Rosmarie Waldrop | The Book of Margins, Edmond Jabès | Robert Hass |
1993 | Charles Simic | The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry | Carolyn Kizer |
1992 | John DuVal | The Discovery of America, Cesare Pascarella | Edmund Keeley |
1992 | Andrew Schelling | Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India | Edmund Keeley |
1991 | Robert Fagles [11][12] | The Iliad, Homer | Gregory Rabassa |
1990 | Stephen Mitchell | Variable Directions, Dan Pagis | Serge Gavronsky |
1989 | Martin Greenberg (poet) | Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays | John Hollander |
1988 | Peter Hargitai | Perched on Nothing's Branch, Attila József | May Swenson |
1987 | Mark Anderson | In the Storm of Roses, Ingeborg Bachmann | Charles Wright |
1986 | William Arrowsmith | The Storm and Other Things, Eugenio Montale | W. S. Merwin |
1985 | Edward Snow | New Poems [1907], Rainer Maria Rilke | Allen Mandelbaum |
1984 | Robert Fitzgerald [13] | The Odyssey, Homer | William Arrowsmith |
1984 | Stephen Mitchell [14] | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | William Arrowsmith |
1982 | Rika Lesser | Guide to the Underworld, Gunnar Ekelöf | Richard Howard |
1980 | Saralyn R. Daly | The Book of True Love, Juan Ruis | Charles Simic |
1980 | Edmund Keeley | Ritsos in Parentheses | Charles Simic |
1978 | Galway Kinnell | The Poems of François Villon | Mark Strand |
1978 | Howard Norman | The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians | Mark Strand |
1976 | Robert Fitzgerald | The Iliad, Homer | Richard Wilbur |