# PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a poetry translation published in the preceding year. The award should not be confused with the PEN Translation Prize. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes. The award was called one of "the most prominent translation awards."

## Guidelines

The $3,000 award is given to a book-length translation of poetry into English published in the United States the previous year. Up to two translators may work on the book. Translators may be of any nationality.

## Winners

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winners :
| Year | Translator | Title | Poet | Publisher |
| 1996 | Guy Davenport | 7 Greeks | Various poets | New Directions |
| 1997 | Edward Snow | Uncollected Poems | Rainer Maria Rilke | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 1998 | Eamon Grennan | Selected Poems | Giacomo Leopardi | Princeton University Press |
| 1999 | Richard Zenith | Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems | Fernando Pessoa | Grove Atlantic |
| 2000 | James Brasfield | The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha | Oleh Lysheha | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
| 2001 | Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld | Open Closed Open | Yehuda Amichai | Harcourt |
| 2002 | Anne Twitty | Islandia | Maria Negroni | Station Hill |
| 2003 | Khaled Mattawa | Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef | Saadi Youssef | Graywolf Press |
| 2004 | Peter Cole | J'Accuse | Aharon Shabtai | New Directions |
| 2005 | Pierre Joris | Lightduress | Paul Celan | Green Integer |
| 2006 | Wilson Baldridge | Recumbents | Michel Deguy | Wesleyan |
| 2007 | David Hinton | The Selected Poems of Wang Wei | Wang Wei | New Directions |
| 2008 | Rosmarie Waldrop | Lingos I - X | Ulf Stolterfoht | Burning Deck Press |
| 2009 | Marilyn Hacker | King of a Hundred Horsemen | Marie Étienne | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2010 | Anne Carson | An Oresteia: Agamemnon | Aiskhylos | Faber & Faber |
| 2010 | Anne Carson | Elektra | Sophokles | Faber & Faber |
| 2010 | Anne Carson | Orestes | Euripides | Faber & Faber |
| 2011 | Khaled Mattawa | Adonis: Selected Poems | Adunis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Jen Hofer | Negro Marfil/Ivory Black | Myriam Moscona | Les Figues Press |
| 2013 | Molly Weigel | The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems | Jorge Santiago Perednik | Action Books |
| 2014 | Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley | Diaries of Exile | Yannis Ritsos | Archipelago |
| 2015 | Eliza Griswold | I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan | | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2016 | Sawako Nakayasu | The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa | Chika Sagawa | Canarium Books |
| 2017 | Simon Armitage | Pearl: A New Verse Translation | The Pearl Poet | Liveright/W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2018 | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2019 | Richard Sieburth | A Certain Plume | Henri Michaux | New York Review Books |
| 2020 | Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen | The Winter Garden Photograph | Reina María Rodríguez | Ugly Duckling Presse |
| 2021 | Steve Bradbury | Raised by Wolves: Poems and Conversations | Amang | Phoneme Media |
| 2022 | Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer | Everything I Don’t Know | Jerzy Ficowski | |
| 2023 | Daniel Borzutzky | The Loose Pearl | Paula Ilabaca Nuñez | co-im-press |