List of winners of the National Book Award
Award for Translated Literature

1967
Gregory Rabassa
Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch
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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
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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
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Helen R. Lane
Octavio Paz's Alternating Current
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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
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Jane Gary Harris Constance Link
Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters
1981
Francis Steegmuller
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
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John E. Woods
Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold
1982
Robert Lyons Danly
Higuchi Ichiyō's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
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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)
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2018
Margaret Mitsutani
Tawada Yoko's The Emissary

Question: When did Woods receive the National Book Award and for what work?
Answer: In 1981, Woods received the National Book Award for the Translation of Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold.