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List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

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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]

YearPoetBookJudges
2021Maria Dahvana HeadleyBeowulf: A New TranslationIndran Amirthanayagam
2020Rajiv MohabirI Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari SharmaDaniel Borzutzky
2019Clare CavanaghAsymmetry by Adam ZagajewskiDunya Mikhail
2018David LarsenNames of the Lion by Ibn KhalawayhAmmiel Alcalay
2017Piotr FlorczykBuilding the Barricade by Anna ŚwirszczyńskaMarilyn Hacker
2016Ron PadgettZone: Selected Poems by Guillaume ApollinairePeter Cole
2015Roger GreenwaldGuarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar HardingBill Johnston
2014W. S. MerwinSelected TranslationsDavid Hinton
2013Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain GallaisFortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc NancyErín Moure
2012Jen HoferNegro Marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam MosconaPierre Joris
2011Jeffrey AnglesForest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada ChimakoCharles Martin
2010Stephen KesslerDesolation of the Chimera by Luis CernudaEdith Grossman
2009Avi SharonC. P. Cavafy: Selected PoemsJohn Balaban
2008Clayton EshlemanThe Complete Poetry of Cesar VallejoJerome Rothenberg
2007Robert FaglesThe Aeneid by VirgilChristopher Merrill
2007Susanna Niedit by Inger ChristensenChristopher Merrill
2006Richard ZenithEducation by Stone: Selected PoemsWillis Barnstone
2005Daryl Hine[6]Works of Hesiod and the Homeric HymnsMark Strand
2004Charles Martin[7]Metamorphoses by OvidRika Lesser
2004Anselm HolloPentii Saarikoski's TrilogyRika Lesser
2003W. S. MerwinSir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)Robert Bly
2002David FerryThe Epistles of Horace by HoraceCarolyn Forché
2001Clayton EshlemanTrilce by César VallejoRon Padgett
2001Edward SnowDuino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeRon Padgett
2000Cola Franzen[8]Horses in the Air by Jorge GuillénMarie Ponsot
1999W. D. SnodgrassSelected TranslationsWilliam Jay Smith
1998Louis SimpsonModern Poets of France: A Bilingual AnthologyRachel Hadas
1997David Hinton[9]Landscape Over Zero by Bei Dao
The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
The Selected Poems of Lí Po
Rosmarie Waldrop
1996Guy Davenport7 GreeksEliot Weinberger
1995Robert PinskyThe Inferno of Dante: A New Verse TranslationDavid Ferry
1994Rosmarie WaldropThe Book of Margins by Edmond JabèsRobert Hass
1993Charles SimicThe Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian PoetryCarolyn Kizer
1992John DuValThe Discovery of America by Cesare PascarellaEdmund Keeley
1992Andrew SchellingDropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient IndiaEdmund Keeley
1991Robert Fagles[5][10]The Iliad by HomerGregory Rabassa
1990Stephen MitchellVariable Directions by Dan PagisSerge Gavronsky
1989Martin Greenberg (poet)Heinrich von Kleist: Five PlaysJohn Hollander
1988Peter HargitaiPerched on Nothing's Branch by Attila JózsefMay Swenson
1987Mark AndersonIn the Storm of Roses by Ingeborg BachmannCharles Wright
1986William ArrowsmithThe Storm and Other Things by Eugenio MontaleW. S. Merwin
1985Edward SnowNew Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria RilkeAllen Mandelbaum
1984Robert Fitzgerald[11]The Odyssey by HomerWilliam Arrowsmith
1984Stephen Mitchell[11]The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria RilkeWilliam Arrowsmith
1982Rika LesserGuide to the Underworld by Gunnar EkelöfRichard Howard
1980Saralyn R. DalyThe Book of True Love by Juan RuisCharles Simic
1980Edmund KeeleyRitsos in ParenthesesCharles Simic
1978Galway KinnellThe Poems of François VillonMark Strand
1978Howard NormanThe Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree IndiansMark Strand
1976Robert FitzgeraldThe Iliad by HomerRichard Wilbur

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    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 15, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | Poets & Writers". Archived from the original on July 12, 2009. Retrieved June 20, 2009.
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    "Grants & Awards". Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved June 20, 2009.
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    "Archived copy". Amazon. Archived from the original on February 18, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "President Bush awards the 2006 National Humanities Medals". www.neh.gov. Archived from the original on November 15, 2006.
  6. [6]
    http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=22113 [dead link]
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    "Education Update - Pulitzer Nominee Dr. Charles Martin Receives Translation Award". www.educationupdate.com. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
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    "The Book". Retrieved April 24, 2023.
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    "Macmillan: Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology David Hinton: Books". us.macmillan.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008.
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    "Professor and acclaimed translator Robert Fagles dies - the Daily Princetonian". Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2009.
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    "Two Translators Win $1,000 Landon Awards". The New York Times. April 21, 1984.
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