2020 ALTA Awards Announcement: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
Channel: Literary Translation
Date: 2020-10-28

Tune in here for the 2020 ALTA Awards Announcement: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize at ALTA43: In Between. 

Judged in 2020 by: Noh Anothai, John Balcom, E. J. Koh

The 2020 shortlisted titles are: 
1. Hysteria, by Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi. Published by Action Books.
2. No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, by Che Qianzi, translated from Chinese by Yunte Huang. Published by Polymorph Editions.
3. Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry, by Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuhara,
Miyoshi Tatsuji, and Nagase Kiyoko, translated from Japanese by Takako Lento. Published by Cornell University Press.

The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, which was inaugurated in 2009, recognizes the importance of Asian translation for international literature and promotes the translation of Asian works into English. Stryk was an internationally acclaimed translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen poetry, renowned Zen poet himself, and former professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Both translators and publishers are invited to submit titles.

Submissions for the 2021 prize will open in January 2021 at https://alta.submittable.com/submit.