List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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 |
| 2017 | Piotr Florczyk | Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska | Marilyn Hacker |
| 2016 | Ron Padgett | Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire | Peter Cole |
| 2015 | Roger Greenwald | Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding | Bill Johnston |
| 2014 | W. S. Merwin | Selected Translations | David Hinton |
| 2013 | Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais | Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem), Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy | Erin Mouré |
| 2012 | Jen Hofer | Negro Marfil / Ivory Black, Myriam Moscona | Pierre Joris |
| 2011 | Jeffrey Angles | Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako | Charles Martin |
| 2010 | Stephen Kessler | Desolation of the Chimera, Luis Cernuda | Edith Grossman |
| 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 |
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-15. Retrieved 2013-07-02.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Harold+Morton+Landon+Translation+Award
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Harold-Morton-Landon-Translation-winners/lm/TO3ASNVOHEE8
- ↑ http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20061108.html
- ↑ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=22113
- ↑ http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2004/december/html/Book-PulitzerNominee.html
- ↑ http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100725930
- ↑ http://us.macmillan.com/classicalchinesepoetry
- ↑ http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20061108.html
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ "Two Translators Win $1,000 Landon Awards". The New York Times. April 21, 1984.
- ↑ "Two Translators Win $1,000 Landon Awards". The New York Times. April 21, 1984.
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