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The National Translation Award is awarded annually by the American Literary Translators Association for literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. Since 2015 the prize has been awarded separately in categories of prose and poetry. Established in 1998, the NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include a full evaluation of the source language text.^[1] As of 2023 the award is worth $4,000 given to the translator.^[2] The award is usually given to translations of previously untranslated contemporary works or first-time translations of older works, but important re-translations have also been honored. The winning translators and books are featured at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association.

The ALTA also awards the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, Italian Prose in Translation Award, the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, the ALTA First Translation Prize, and the ALTA Travel Fellowships.

Winners

National Translation Award 2007-2014

Year	Genre	Translator	Work	Language
2007	Prose	Joel Agee	The Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (University of Chicago)	German
2008	Drama	Richard Wilbur	The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille (Harvest Books)	French
2009	Poetry	Norman R. Shapiro	French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen by Multiple (Johns Hopkins University Press)	French
2010	Prose	Alex Zucker	All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hůlová (Northwestern University Press)	Czech
2011	Poetry	Lisa Rose Bradford	Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter by Juan Gelman (Coimbra Editions)	Spanish
2012	Poetry	Sinan Antoon	In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago)	Arabic
2013	Prose	Philip Boehm	The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller (Picador)	German
2014	Poetry	Eugene Ostashevsky & Matvei Yankelevich	An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky (NYRB Poets)	Russian

National Translation Award 2015-Current

2015 marked the first year in which two separate National Translation Awards were given, one for poetry and one for prose.

Year	Genre	Translator	Work	Language	Judges
2015	Poetry	Pierre Joris	Breathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan (FSG)	French	Lisa Rose Bradford, Stephen Kessler, Diana Thow
2015	Prose	William Hutchins	New Waw, Saharan Oasis by Ibrahim al-Koni (University of Texas)	Arabic	Pamela Carmell, Jason Grunebaum, Anne Magnan-Park
2016	Poetry	Hilary Kaplan	Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas (Phoneme Media)	Portuguese	Adriana Jacobs, Karen Kovacik, Cole Swensen
2016	Prose	Elizabeth Harris	Tristano Dies: A Life by Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago)	Italian	Karen Emmerich, Andrea Labinger, Marian Schwartz
2017	Poetry	Daniel Borzutzky	Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto (co.im.press)	Spanish	Ani Gjika, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Gregory Racz
2017	Prose	Esther Allen	Zama by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB Classics)	Spanish	Carol Apollonio, Ottilie Mulzet, Eric M. B. Becker
2018	Poetry	Katrine Øgaard Jensen	Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Action Books)	Danish	Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Jennifer Feeley, Sawako Nakayasu
2018	Prose	Charlotte Mandell	Compass by Mathias Énard (New Directions)	French	Esther Allen, Tess Lewis, Jeremy Tiang
2019	Poetry	Bill Johnston	Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz (Archipelago)	Polish	Anna Deeny Morales, Cole Heinowitz, Sholeh Wolpe
2019	Prose	Karen Emmerich	What’s Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos (New Vessel Press)	Greek	Bonnie Huie, Charlotte Mandell, Jeffrey Zuckerman
2020^[3]	Prose	Jordan Stump	The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye (A.A. Knopf)	French	Amaia Gabantxo, Emmanuel D. Harris II, and William Maynard Hutchins
2020^[4]	Poetry	Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi	Hysteria by Kim Yi-deum	Korean	Ilya Kaminsky, Lisa Katz, and Farid Matuk
2021	Prose	Tejaswini Niranjana	No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini	Kannada	Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Annie Janusch
2021	Poetry	Geoffrey Brock	Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti	Italian	Sinan Antoon, Layla Benitez-James, Sibelan Forrester
2022	Prose	Martin Aitken	The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard	Norwegian	Suzanne Jill Levine, Arunava Sinha, Annie Tucker
2022	Poetry	D. M. Black	Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri	Italian	Hélène Cardona, Boris Dralyuk, Archana Venkatesan
2023	Prose	Nguyễn An Lý	Chinatown by Thuận	Vietnamese	Natascha Bruce, Shelley Frisch, Jason Grunebaum, Sawad Hussain, Lytton Smith
2023	Poetry	Robyn Creswell	The Threshold by Iman Mersal	Arabic	Pauline Fan, Heather Green, Shook

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

Since 2009 the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the NTA by the ALTA and recognizes the best translation into English of book-length Asian poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism published in the previous calendar year. It is named for Lucien Stryk, an American Zen poet and translator. The winning translator is awarded $6,000.^[5]

Year	Translator	Book and author	Language
2010	Red Pine	In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu by Wei Ying-wu	Chinese
2011	Charles Egan	Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China	Chinese
2012	Don Mee Choi	All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon	Korean
2013	Lucas Klein	Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan	Chinese
2014	Jonathan Chaves	Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing	Chinese
2015	Eleanor Goodman	Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni	Chinese
2016	Sawako Nakayasu	The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika Sagawa	Japanese
2017	Jennifer Feeley	Not Written Words by Xi Xi	Chinese
2018	Bonnie Huie	Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin	Chinese
2019	Don Mee Choi	Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon	Korean
2020	Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi	Hysteria by Kim Yi-deum	Korean
2021	Archana Venkatesan	Endless Song by Nammāḻvār	Tamil
2022	Jae Kim	Cold Candies by Lee Young-ju	Korean
2023	Wong May	In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty	Chinese

Italian Prose in Translation Award

Since 2015 the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This $5,000 prize will be awarded annually to a translator of a work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction) published in the previous calendar year.^[6]

Year	Translator	Book and author	Language
2015	Anne Milano Appel	Blindly by Claudio Magris	Italian
2016	Ann Goldstein	The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante	Italian
2017	Matthew Holden	We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini	Italian
2018	Elizabeth Harris	For Isabel, A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi	Italian
2019	Simon Carnell and Erica Segre	The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti	Italian
2020	Frederika Randall	I Am God by Giacomo Sartori	Italian
2021	Stephen Twilley	Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte	Italian & French
2022	Anna Chiafele and Lisa Pike	Penelope by Silvana La Spina	Italian
2023	Michael F. Moore	The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni	Italian

References

^ "National Translation Award (NTA)". ALTA. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ "Announcing the 2019 Longlists for the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose!". 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ rcldaum (2020-10-15). "Announcing the Winner of the 2020 National Translation Award in Prose: The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, trans. Jordan Stump, pub. Alfred A. Knopf". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
^ rcldaum (2020-10-15). "Announcing the Winner of the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry: Hysteria by Kim Yideum, trans. Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi, pub. Action Books". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
^ "Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize | the American Literary Translators Association".
^ "Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) | the American Literary Translators Association".

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