Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a U.S. literary award given by the Academy of American Poets to recognize a published translation of poetry from any language into English. The award was first given in 1976 to Robert Fitzgerald and was awarded biannually until 1987, when it began to be awarded annually.

To be eligible for the award, the work must be published in the U.S. during the previous year in a "standard edition" of 40 pages or more with a run of 500 or more copies. The work must consist primarily of poetry, and translators must be living citizens of the United States to be eligible. Works by two translators are accepted, but poetry anthologies in which other translators' work is included are not.

Award winners receive a US$1,000 award. A notable translator chooses the winner.

List of winners

:2006: Richard Zenith, for "" :2005: Daryl Hine, for "Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns.":2004: Charles Martin, for "Metamorphoses" by Ovid.:2004: Anselm Hollo, for "Trilogy" by Pentti Saarikoski.:2003: W. S. Merwin, for "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".:2002: David Ferry, for "The Epistles of Horace" by Horace.:2001: Clayton Eshleman, for "Trilce" by César Vallejo.:2001: Edward Snow, for "Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke.:2000: Cola Franzen, for "Horses in the Air" by Jorge Guillén.:1999: W. D. Snodgrass, for "Selected Translations".:1998: Louis Simpson, for "".:1997: David Hinton, for "Landscape Over Zero, The Late Poems of Meng Chiao, The Selected Poems of Li Po".:1996: Guy Davenport, for "Seven Greeks".:1995: Robert Pinsky, for "".:1994: Rosmarie Waldrop, for "The Book of Margins" by Edmond Jabès.:1993: Charles Simic, for ".:1992: John DuVal, for "The Discovery of America" by Cesare Pascarella.:1992: Andrew Schelling, for ".:1991: Robert Fagles, for "The Iliad" by Homer.:1990: Stephen Mitchell, for "Variable Directions" by Dan Pagis.:1989: Martin Greenberg, for "Five Plays" by Heinrich von Kleist.:1988: Peter Hargitai, for "Perched on Nothing's Branch" by Attila József.:1987: Mark Anderson, for "In the Storm of Roses" by Ingeborg Bachmann.:1986: William Arrowsmith, for "The Storm and Other Things" by Eugenio Montale.:1985: Edward Snow, for "New Poems (1907)" by Rainer Maria Rilke.:1984: Robert Fitzgerald, for "The Odyssey" by Homer.:1984: Stephen Mitchell, for "The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke".:1982: Rika Lesser, for "Guide to the Underworld" by Gunnar Ekelöf.:1980: Saralyn R. Daly, for "The Book of True Love" by Juan Ruis.:1980: Edmund Keeley, for "Ritsos in Parentheses".:1978: Galway Kinnell, for "The Poems of François Villon".:1978: Howard Norman, for ".:1976: Robert Fitzgerald, for "The Iliad" by Homer.

ee also

*List of poetry awards
*List of literature awards
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/112 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award] on poets.org