List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award information
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]
It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.[5]
Year
Poet
Book
Judges
2021
Maria Dahvana Headley
Beowulf: A New Translation
Indran Amirthanayagam
2020
Rajiv Mohabir
I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma
Daniel Borzutzky
2019
Clare Cavanagh
Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski
Dunya Mikhail
2018
David Larsen
Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh
Ammiel Alcalay
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) by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy
Erín Moure
2012
Jen Hofer
Negro Marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona
Pierre Joris
2011
Jeffrey Angles
Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako
Charles Martin
2010
Stephen Kessler
Desolation of the Chimera by 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 by Virgil
Christopher Merrill
2007
Susanna Nied
it by Inger Christensen
Christopher Merrill
2006
Richard Zenith
Education by Stone: Selected Poems
Willis Barnstone
2005
Daryl Hine[6]
Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns
Mark Strand
2004
Charles Martin[7]
Metamorphoses by 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 by Horace
Carolyn Forché
2001
Clayton Eshleman
Trilce by César Vallejo
Ron Padgett
2001
Edward Snow
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ron Padgett
2000
Cola Franzen[8]
Horses in the Air by 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[9]
Landscape Over Zero by 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 by 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 by Cesare Pascarella
Edmund Keeley
1992
Andrew Schelling
Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India
Edmund Keeley
1991
Robert Fagles[5][10]
The Iliad by Homer
Gregory Rabassa
1990
Stephen Mitchell
Variable Directions by Dan Pagis
Serge Gavronsky
1989
Martin Greenberg (poet)
Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays
John Hollander
1988
Peter Hargitai
Perched on Nothing's Branch by Attila József
May Swenson
1987
Mark Anderson
In the Storm of Roses by Ingeborg Bachmann
Charles Wright
1986
William Arrowsmith
The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale
W. S. Merwin
1985
Edward Snow
New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke
Allen Mandelbaum
1984
Robert Fitzgerald[11]
The Odyssey by Homer
William Arrowsmith
1984
Stephen Mitchell[11]
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
William Arrowsmith
1982
Rika Lesser
Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelöf
Richard Howard
1980
Saralyn R. Daly
The Book of True Love by 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 by Homer
Richard Wilbur
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