- PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
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The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is an annual award given to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN American Center and the Book of the Month Club since 1963.
The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $3,000. Any book-length English translation published in the United States during the year in question is eligible, irrespective of the residence or nationality of either the translator or the original author.
The award is separate from the similar PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Winners
Year Translator Book and author Language 2010 Michael Henry Heim Wonder by Hugo Claus Dutch 2009 Natasha Wimmer 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Spanish 2008 Margaret Jull Costa The Maias by Eça de Queirós Portuguese 2007 Sandra Smith Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky French 2006 Philip Gabriel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Japanese 2005 Tim Wilkinson Fatelessness by Imre Kertész Hungarian 2004 Margaret Sayers Peden Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina Spanish 2003 R.W. Flint The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese Italian 2002 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Russian 2001 Tiina Nunnally The Cross by Sigrid Undset Norwegian 2000 Richard Sieburth Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval French 1999 Michael Hofmann The String of Pearls by Joseph Roth German 1998 Peter Constantine Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann German 1997 Arnold Pomerans The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Dutch 1996 Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh View With a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska Polish 1995 Burton Watson Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o Chinese 1994 Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow Earthlight by André Breton French 1993 Thomas Hoisington The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki Polish 1992 David Rosenberg The Poet's Bible Hebrew 1991 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian 1990 William Weaver Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Italian 1989 Matthew Ward The Stranger by Albert Camus French 1988 Madeline Levine and Francine Prose A Scrap of Time by Ida Fink Polish 1987 John E. Woods Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind German 1986
(prose)Barbara Bray The Lover by Marguerite Duras French 1986
(verse)Dennis Tedlock Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life Quiché 1985
(prose)Helen R. Lane The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Spanish 1985
(verse)Seamus Heaney Sweeney Astray Irish 1984 William Weaver The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Italian 1983 Richard Wilbur Four Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives by Molière French 1982 Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry Japanese 1981 John E. Woods Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt German 1980 Charles Simic Homage to the Lame Wolf by Vasco Popa 1979 Charles Wright The Storm and Other Poems by Eugenio Montale Italian 1979 Adrienne Foulke One Way or Another by Leonardo Sciascia Italian 1977 Gregory Rabassa The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez Spanish 1976 Richard Howard A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran French 1975 Helen R. Lane Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo Spanish 1974 Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso Spanish 1973 J. P. McCullough The Poems of Sextus Propertius Latin 1972 Richard Winston and Clara Winston Letters of Thomas Mann German 1971 Max Hayward Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam Russian 1970 Sidney Alexander The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini Italian 1969 W. S. Merwin Selected Translations 1948-1968 Various 1968 Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks (eds.) Modern Russian Poetry Russian 1967 Harriet de Onis Sagarana by João Guimarães Rosa Portuguese 1966 Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss German 1965 Joseph Barnes The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky Russian 1964 Ralph Manheim The Tin Drum by Günter Grass German 1963 Archibald Colquhoun The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto Italian See also
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- International PEN literary awards
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