List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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.

List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Section Title:
Table Section Text: 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.

Year	Poet	Book	Judges

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), Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy	Erin Mouré

2012	Jen Hofer	Negro Marfil / Ivory Black, Myriam Moscona	Pierre Joris

2011	Jeffrey Angles	Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako	Charles Martin

2010	Stephen Kessler	Desolation of the Chimera, 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, Virgil	Christopher Merrill

2007	Susanna Nied	it, Inger Christensen	Christopher Merrill

2006	Richard Zenith	Education by Stone: Selected Poems	Willis Barnstone

2005	Daryl Hine	Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns	Mark Strand

2004	Charles Martin	Metamorphoses, 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, Horace	Carolyn Forché

2001	Clayton Eshleman	Trilce, César Vallejo	Ron Padgett

2001	Edward Snow	Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke	Ron Padgett

2000	Cola Franzen	Horses in the Air, 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	Landscape Over Zero, 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, 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, Cesare Pascarella	Edmund Keeley

1992	Andrew Schelling	Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India	Edmund Keeley

1991	Robert Fagles	The Iliad, Homer	Gregory Rabassa

1990	Stephen Mitchell	Variable Directions, Dan Pagis	Serge Gavronsky

1989	Martin Greenberg (poet)	Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays	John Hollander

1988	Peter Hargitai	Perched on Nothing's Branch, Attila József	May Swenson

1987	Mark Anderson	In the Storm of Roses, Ingeborg Bachmann	Charles Wright

1986	William Arrowsmith	The Storm and Other Things, Eugenio Montale	W. S. Merwin

1985	Edward Snow	New Poems [1907], Rainer Maria Rilke	Allen Mandelbaum

1984	Robert Fitzgerald	The Odyssey, Homer	William Arrowsmith

1984	Stephen Mitchell	The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke	William Arrowsmith

1982	Rika Lesser	Guide to the Underworld, Gunnar Ekelöf	Richard Howard

1980	Saralyn R. Daly	The Book of True Love, 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, Homer	Richard Wilbur

Sentence(s)

Ferry is a recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

final_sentence: Ferry is a recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.