| 1 | A | B | C |
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| 2 | List of winners of the National Book Award - Award for Translated Literature |  |  |
| 3 | 1967 | Gregory Rabassa | Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch |
| 4 | - | Willard Trask | Casanova's History of My Life (first of 6 vols.) |
| 5 | 1968 | Howard Hong Edna Hong | Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (first of 7 vols.) |
| 6 | 1969 | William Weaver | Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics |
| 7 | 1970 | Ralph Manheim | Céline's Castle to Castle |
| 8 | 1971 | Frank Jones | Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards |
| 9 | - | Edward G. Seidensticker | Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain |
| 10 | 1972 | Austryn Wainhouse | Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity |
| 11 | 1973 | Allen Mandelbaum | The Aeneid of Virgil |
| 12 | 1974 | Karen Brazell | The Confessions of Lady Nijo |
| 13 | - | Helen R. Lane | Octavio Paz's Alternating Current |
| 14 | - | Jackson Matthews | Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste |
| 15 | 1975 | Anthony Kerrigan | Miguel de Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith |
| 16 | 1977 | Li-Li Ch'en | Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance |
| 17 | 1978 | Richard and Clara Winston | Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth |
| 18 | 1979 | Clayton Eshleman José Rubia Barcia | César Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry |
| 19 | 1980 | William Arrowsmith | Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor |
| 20 | - | Jane Gary Harris Constance Link | Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters |
| 21 | 1981 | Francis Steegmuller | The Letters of Gustave Flaubert |
| 22 | - | John E. Woods | Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold |
| 23 | 1982 | Robert Lyons Danly | Higuchi Ichiyō's In the Shade of Spring Leaves |
| 24 | - | Ian Hideo Levy | The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry |
| 25 | 1983 | Richard Howard | Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal |
| 26 | 1984-2017 | (no award) | - |
| 27 | 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.