List of winners of the National Book Award
Award for Translated Literature
The first translation award ran from 1968-1983 and was for fiction only, the translated author could be living or dead (eg.

List of winners of the National Book Award

Section Title: Award for Translated Literature
Table Section Text: The first translation award ran from 1968-1983 and was for fiction only, the translated author could be living or dead (eg.

1967	Gregory Rabassa	Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch

Willard Trask	Casanova's History of My Life (first of 6 vols.)

1968	Howard Hong Edna Hong	Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (first of 7 vols.)

1969	William Weaver	Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics

1970	Ralph Manheim	Céline's Castle to Castle

1971	Frank Jones	Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Edward G. Seidensticker	Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain

1972	Austryn Wainhouse	Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity

1973	Allen Mandelbaum	The Aeneid of Virgil

1974	Karen Brazell	The Confessions of Lady Nijo

Helen R. Lane	Octavio Paz's Alternating Current

Jackson Matthews	Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste

1975	Anthony Kerrigan	Miguel de Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith

1977	Li-Li Ch'en	Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance

1978	Richard and Clara Winston	Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth

1979	Clayton Eshleman José Rubia Barcia	César Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry

1980	William Arrowsmith	Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor

Jane Gary Harris Constance Link	Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters

1981	Francis Steegmuller	The Letters of Gustave Flaubert

John E. Woods	Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold

1982	Robert Lyons Danly	Higuchi Ichiyō's In the Shade of Spring Leaves

Ian Hideo Levy	The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry

1983	Richard Howard	Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal

1984-2017	(no award)

2018	Margaret Mitsutani	Tawada Yoko's The Emissary

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Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in the translation category for Castle to Castle.

final_sentence: Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in the translation category for Castle to Castle.