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National Translation Award

National Translation Award

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The National Translation Award is awarded annually by the American Literary Translators Association for literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. Since 2015 the prize has been awarded separately in categories of prose and poetry. Established in 1998, the NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include a full evaluation of the source language text.[1] As of 2023 the award is worth $4,000 given to the translator.[2] The award is usually given to translations of previously untranslated contemporary works or first-time translations of older works, but important re-translations have also been honored. The winning translators and books are featured at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association.

The ALTA also awards the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, Italian Prose in Translation Award, the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, the ALTA First Translation Prize, and the ALTA Travel Fellowships.

Winners

National Translation Award 2007-2014

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National Translation Award 2015-Current

2015 marked the first year in which two separate National Translation Awards were given, one for poetry and one for prose.

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Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

Since 2009 the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the NTA by the ALTA and recognizes the best translation into English of book-length Asian poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism published in the previous calendar year. It is named for Lucien Stryk, an American Zen poet and translator. The winning translator is awarded $6,000.[5]

YearTranslatorBook and authorLanguage
2010 Red PineIn Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu by Wei Ying-wuChinese
2011 Charles EganClouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of ChinaChinese
2012 Don Mee ChoiAll the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim HyesoonKorean
2013 Lucas KleinNotes on the Mosquito by Xi ChuanChinese
2014 Jonathan ChavesEvery Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel WritingChinese
2015 Eleanor GoodmanSomething Crosses My Mind by Wang XiaoniChinese
2016 Sawako NakayasuThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika SagawaJapanese
2017 Jennifer FeeleyNot Written Words by Xi XiChinese
2018 Bonnie HuieNotes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinChinese
2019 Don Mee ChoiAutobiography of Death by Kim HyesoonKorean
2020 Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie ChoiHysteria by Kim Yi-deumKorean
2021 Archana Venkatesan Endless Song by Nammāḻvār Tamil
2022 Jae Kim Cold Candies by Lee Young-ju Korean
2023 Wong May In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty Chinese

Italian Prose in Translation Award

Since 2015 the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This $5,000 prize will be awarded annually to a translator of a work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction) published in the previous calendar year.[6]

YearTranslatorBook and authorLanguage
2015 Anne Milano AppelBlindly by Claudio MagrisItalian
2016 Ann GoldsteinThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteItalian
2017 Matthew HoldenWe Want Everything by Nanni BalestriniItalian
2018 Elizabeth HarrisFor Isabel, A Mandala by Antonio TabucchiItalian
2019 Simon Carnell and Erica SegreThe Eight Mountains by Paolo CognettiItalian
2020 Frederika RandallI Am God by Giacomo SartoriItalian
2021 Stephen Twilley Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte Italian & French
2022 Anna Chiafele and Lisa Pike Penelope by Silvana La Spina Italian
2023 Michael F. Moore The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni Italian

References

  1. [1]
    "National Translation Award (NTA)". ALTA. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Announcing the 2019 Longlists for the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose!". 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  3. [3]
    rcldaum (2020-10-15). "Announcing the Winner of the 2020 National Translation Award in Prose: The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, trans. Jordan Stump, pub. Alfred A. Knopf". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  4. [4]
    rcldaum (2020-10-15). "Announcing the Winner of the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry: Hysteria by Kim Yideum, trans. Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi, pub. Action Books". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  5. [5]
    "Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize | the American Literary Translators Association".
  6. [6]
    "Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) | the American Literary Translators Association".
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