2004
Andrea Berger for her translation from the Hungarian of The Birds of the Air by Zsolt Lang
Philip Boehm for his translation from the German of Settlement by Christoph Hein
Peter Cole for his translation from the Hebrew of The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, c.950-1492
Forrest Gander and Kent Johnston for their translation from the Spanish of The Night by Jaime Saenz
Idra Novey for her translation from the Portuguese of The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto
Joonseong Park for his translation from the Korean of Diary of a Vagabond by Song Yong
Kristin Prevallet for her translation from the French of The Other World: Unpublished Writings by Sony Lab’ou Tansi
Timothy Sergay for his translation from the Russian of A Gloom Descends Upon the Ancient Steps by Aleksandr Pavlovich Chudakov
Gerald Turner for his translation from the Czech of Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik
Elizabeth Winslow for her translation from the Arabic of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
2005
Chris Andrews for his translation from the Spanish of Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
Rachel Tzvia Back for her translation from the Hebrew of Selected Poetry and Drama by Lea Goldberg
Susan Bernofsky for her translation from the German of The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck
Heather Cleary for her translation from the Spanish of The Persuasion of Days by Oliverio Girondo
Karen Emmerich for her translation from the Greek of Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris
Jason Grunebaum for his translation from the Hindi of The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Parkash
Deborah Hoffman for her translation from the Russian of Children of the Gulag
Elizabeth Macklin for her translation from the Basque of Meanwhile Take My Hand: Poems by Kirmen Uribe
Susanna Nied for her translation from the Danish of Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen
Laima Sruoginis for her translation from the Lithuanian of My Voice Betrays Me by Vanda Juknaite
George Szirtes for his translation from the Hungarian of War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Paul Vincent for his translation from the Dutch of Summer in Termurin by Louis Paul Boon
Susan Wilf for her translation from the Chinese of Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo
2006
Johannes Göransson for his translation from the Swedish of Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland
Victoria Häggblom for her translation from the Swedish of To Mervas by Elizabeth Rynell
Nicola Harman for her translation from the Chinese of Banished! by Han Dong
Ann L. Huss for her translation from the Chinese of Beauty by Ge Fei
Sawako Nakayasu for her translation from the Japanese of For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide
Tegan Raleigh for her translation from French of The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar
Constantine Rusanov for his translation from the Lithuanian of The Junction by Tomas Venclova
Stepan Simek for his translation from the Czech of Theremin by Petr Zelenka and Three Sisters 2002.CZ by Iva Volankova
Alan Trei for his translation from the Estonian of Robber’s Rise by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
2007
Susan Bernofsky for her translation from the German of The Assistant by Robert Walser
Jennifer Hayashida for her translation from the Swedish of Clockwork and Flowers: Explanations and Poems by Fredrik Nyberg
Wen Huang for his translation from the Chinese of Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp by Yang Xianhui
Ha-yun Jung for her translation from the Korean of A Lone Room by Kyong-sook
Sara Khalili for her translation from the Persian of Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
Paul Olchváry for her translation from the Hungarian of The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás
Bill Porter for his translation from the Chinese of In Such Hard Times by Wei Ying-wu
Katherine Silver for her translation from the Spanish of Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Christopher Southward for his translation from the Japanese of Acacia by Hitonari Tsuji
Alyson Waters for her translation from the French of A Splendid Conspiracy by Albert Cossery
2008
Bernard Adams for his translation from the Hungarian of Kornel Esti by Deszö Kosztolányi
Jeffrey Angles for his translation from the Japanese of Twelve Perspectives by Mutsuo Takahashi
Sean Redmond for his translation from the Latin of Another Holy Land: Felix Fabri’s Voyage to Medieval Egypt by Felix Fabri
Mira Rosenthal for her translation from the Polish of Colonies by Tomasz Rózycki
Damion Searls for his translation from the Dutch of The Freeloader and Other Stories by Nescio
Simon Wickham-Smith for his translation from the Mongolian of The Battle for Our Land Has Begun by Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar
Andrea Lingenfelter for her translation from the Chinese of Padma by Annie Baobei
Jessica Moore for her translation from the French of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin
2009
Eric Abrahamsen for his translation from the Chinese of My Spiritual Homeland by Wang Xiaobo
Mee Chang for her translation from the Korean of Garden of Youth by Oh Junghee
Fayre Makeig for her translation from the Persian of Mourning by H.E. Sayeh
Robyn Cresswell for his translation from the French of The Clash of Images by Abdelfattah Kilito
Brett Foster for his translation from the Italian of Elemental Rebel: The Rime of Cecco Angiolieri by Cecco Angiolieri
Geoffrey Michael Goshgarian for his translation from the Armenian of The Remnants by Hagop Oshagan
Tess Lewis for her translation from the German for Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra for his translation from the Hindi of Songs of Kabir by Kabir
Frederika Randal for her translation from the Italian of Deliver Us from Evil by Luigi Meneghello
Daniel Shapiro for his translation from the Spanish of Missing Persons, Animals and Artists by Roberto Ransom
Chantal Wright for her translation from the German of A Handful of Water by Tzveta Sofronieva
2010
Daniel Brunet for his translation from the German The Last Fire by Dea Loher
Peter Golub for his translation from the Russian Or Tea? The Selected Short Fiction of Linor Goralik
Piotr Gwiazda for his translation from the Polish Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wroblewski
David Hull for his translation from the Chinese Waverings by Mao Dun
Chip Rossetti for his translation from the Arabic Animals in Our Days by Mohamad Makhzangi
Bilal Tanweer for his translation from the Urdu Love in Chakiwara (And Other Such Adventures) by Muhammad Khalid Akhtar
Alexander Dawe for his translation from the Turkish short stories by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Akinloye A. Ojo for his translation from the Yoruba Afaimo and other Poems by Akinwumi Isola
Angela Rodel for her translation from the Bulgarian Holy Light by Georgi Tenev
Margo Rosen for her translation from the Russian Poetry and Untruth by Anatoly Naiman
Diane Thiel for her translation from the Greek The Great Green by Eugenia Fakinou
2011
Amiri Ayanna for her translation from the Northeastern Swiss dialects of Middle High German of The St. Katharinental Sister Book: Lives of the Sisters of the Dominican Convent at Diessenhofen
Neil Blackadder for his translation from the German of The Test (Good Simon Korach)––a play
Clarissa Botsford for her translation from the Italian of Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones
Steve Bradbury for his translation from the Chinese (Mandarin) of Salsa––collection of poems by Hsia Yu
Annmarie S. Drury for her translation from the Swahili of a collection of poems by Euphrase Kezilahabi
Diane Nemec Ignasher for her translation from the Russian of Paranoia: a novel by Victor Martinovich
Chenxin Jiang for her translation from the Chinese of Memories of the Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
Hilary B. Kaplan for her translation from the Portuguese of Rilke Shake by Angelica Freitas
Catherine Schelbert for her translation from the German of Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor by Hugo Ball
Joel Streicker for his translation from the Spanish of Birds in the Mouth by Samanta Schweblin
Sarah L. Thomas for her translation from the Spanish of Turnaround by Mar Goméz Glez
2012
Bernard Adams for his translation from the Hungarian of The Hangman’s House by Andrea Tompa
Alexander Booth for his translation from the German of In Latin Fields by Lutz Seiler
Brent Edwards for his translation from the French of Phantom Africa by Michel Leiris
Joshua Daniel Edwin for his translation from the German of gloomerang by Damara Kraus
Musharraf Ali Farooqi for his translation from the Urdu of Hoshruba by Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar
Deborah Garfinkle for her translation from the Czech of Worm-Eaten Time: Poems from a Life Under Normalization by Pavel Šrut (1968-1989)
Hillary Gulley for her translation from the Spanish of The End of the Same by Marcelo Cohen
Bonnie Huie for her translation from the Chinese of Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Jacquelyn Pope for her translation from the Dutch of Hungerpots: Selected Poems by Hester Knibbe
Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad for their translation from the Urdu of Mirages of the Mind by Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi
Carrie E. Bernard for her translation from the Classical Chinese of Youyang zazu by Duan Chengshi
Nathanaël for his translation from the French of The Mausoleum of Lovers by Hervé Guibert
2013
Daniel Borzutzky for his translation from the Spanish of The Country of Planks by Raul Zurita
Isabel Cole for her translation from the German of At the Burning Abyss by Franz Fühmann
Sean Cotter for his translation from the Romanian of Rakes of the Old Court by Mateiu Caragiale
Chloe Garcia Roberts for her translation from the Classical Chinese of Escalating Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellanea by Li Shangyin
Edward Gauvin for his translation from the French of The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry
Eleanor Goodman for her translation from the Chinese of Something Crosses My Mind: the Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni
Marilyn Hacker for her translation from theFrenchof The Bridges of Budapest by Jean-Paul de Dadelsen”
Elizabeth Harris for her translation from the Italian Tristano Dies by Antonio Tabucchi
Jennifer Hayashida forher translation from the Swedish of Vitsvit by Athena Farrokhzad
Eugene Ostashevsky and Daniel Mellis for their translation from the Russian of Tango with Cows by Vasily Kamensky
Jeremy Tiang for his translation from the Mandarin Chinese of Nine Buildings by Zou Jingzhi
Annie Tucker for her translation from the Indonesian of Beauty Is A Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Lara Vergnaud for her translation from the French of France, Story of Childhood by Zahia Rahmani
2014
Kurt Beals for his translation from the German of The Country Road by Regina Ullman
Eric M. B. Becker for his translation from the Portuguese of Selected Stories by Mia Couto
David Burnett for his translation from the German of The American Stories by Johannes Urzidil
Janet Hong for her translation from the Korean of The Impossible Fairytale by Han Yujoo
Paul Hoover for his translation from the Spanish of Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light–Two Poems by María Baranda
Andrea G. Labinger for her translation from the Spanish Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
Sergey Levchin for his translation from the French of Commentaires by Chris Marker
Zachary Ludington for his translation from the Spanish of Pixel Flesh by Augistin Fernandez
J. Bret Maney for his translation from theSpanish of Manhattan Tropics by Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev for their translation from the Russian I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky by Arseny Tarkovsky
Sayuri Okamoto for her translation from the Japanese of Dear Monster by Gozo Yoshimasu
Benjamin Paloff for his translation from the Czech of The Game for Real Richard Weiner
Miranda Richmond Mouillot for her translation from the French of The Kites by Romain Gary
Thom Satterlee for his translation from the Danish of New and Selected Poetry of Per Aage Brandt
Sholeh Wolpe for her translation from the Persian of The Conference of Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar
2015
Allison Charette for her translation from the French (Madagascar) of Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo
Jennifer Croft for her translation from the Polish The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická for their translation from the Czech The Absolute Gravedigger by Vítězslav Nezval
Amanda DeMarco for her translation from the French of New Inventions and the Latest Innovations by Gaston de Pawlowski
Adriana Jacobs for her translation from the Hebrew of The Truffle Eye by Vaan Nguyen
Roy Kesey for her translation from the Spanish of The Cousins by Aurora Venturini
Lee Klein for his translation from the Spanish of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Dong Li for her translation from the Mandarin Chinese of The Gleaner Song by Song Lin
Meg Matich for her translation from the Icelandic of Cold Moons by Magnús Sigurðsson
Jacob Moe for his translation from the Greek of Part Time Dragons by Maria Mitsora
Rajiv Mohabir for his translation from the Awadhi/Bhojpuri Hindi of Holi Songs of Demerara byLalbihari Sharma
Takami Nieda for her translation from the Japanese of GO by Kazuki Kaneshiro
Zoë Perry for her translation from the Portuguese of Opisanie Świata by Veronica Stigger
Will Schutt for his translation from the Italian of The Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti by Edoardo Sanguineti
Sophie Seita for her translation from the German of Subsisters: Selected Poems by Uljana Wolf
Simon Wickhamsmith for his translation from the Mongolian of The End of the Dark Era by Tseveendorjin Oidov
2016
Gabriel Amor for his translation from the Spanish of Juana I by Ana Arzoumanian
Ellen Cassedy for her translation from the Yiddish of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash by Yenta Mash
Chris Clarke for his translation from the French of Imaginary Lives by Marcel Schwob
Sharon Dolin for her translation from the Catalan of Book of Minutes by Gemma Gorga
Kaiama L. Glover for her translation from the French of Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre
Anita Gopalan for her translation from the Hindi of Simsim by Geet Chaturvedi
Amanda Lee for her translation from the Chinese of Ten Years of Marriage by Su Qing
Karen Leeder for her translation from the German of Thick of it by Ulrike Almut Sandig
Rachel McNicholl for her translation from the German of Operation Hinterland: Tales from the Silver Scrapheap by Anita Augusti
Alicia Meier for her translation from the Catalan of The Sky According to Google by Marta Miserachs
Emma Ramadan for her translation from the French of The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani
Corine Tachtiris for her translation from the Czech of Dark Love by Alexandra Berková
Russell Valentino for his translation from the Bosnian-Croatian-Serbianof Kin by Miljenko Jergović
Jeffrey Zuckerman for his translation from the French of The Complete Stories of Hervé Guibert by Hervé Guibert
2017
Nick Admussen for his translation from the Chinese of Floral Mutter by YA Shi (哑石)
Polly Barton for her translation from the Japanese of The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky by Misumi Kubo
Elizabeth Bryer for her translation from the Spanish of The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun
Vital Chernetsky for his translation from the Ukranian of Felix Austria by Sophia Andrukhovych
Iain Galbraith for his translation from the German of Raoul Schrott: Selected Poems
Michelle Gil-Montero for her translation from the Spanish of Edinburgh Notebook by Valerie Mejer Caso
Sophie Hughes for her translation from the Spanish of The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Elisabeth Jaquette for her translation from the Arabic of Thirteen Months of Sunrises by Rania Mamoun
Kira Josefsson for her translation from the Swedish of The Arab by Pooneh Rohi
Adam Morris for his translation from the Portuguese of I Didn’t Talk by Beatriz Bracher
Kaitlin Rees for her translation from the Vietnamese of A Parade by Nhã Thuyên
Dayla Rogers for her translation from the Turkish of Wûf by Kemal Varol
Christopher Tamigi for his translation from the Italian of In Your Name by Mauro Covacich
Manjushree Thapa for her translation from the Nepali of There’s a Carnival Today by Indra Bahadur Rai
Joyce Zonana for her translation from the French of This Land That Is Like You by Tobie Nathan