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1985 Literary Award Winners
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Prose
Helen R. Lane, The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Richard Howard
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