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2011 PEN Translation Prize

WinnerThe 2011 PEN Translation Prize went to Ibrahim Muhawi for Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books).The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from… More

2009 PEN Translation Prize

WinnerThis year’s award goes to Natasha Wimmer for her translation from the Spanish of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations… More

2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerThe 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation went to Khaled Mattawa for Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters Series).The PEN Award for… More

2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerThis year’s award goes to Marilyn Hacker for her translation from the French of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).The PEN Award for… More

2009 The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

WinnerThis year’s honoree is Michael Henry Heim.The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through… More

2010 PEN Translation Prize

WinnerThe 2010 PEN Translation Prize went to to Michael Henry Heim for his translation from the Dutch of Wonder by Hugo Claus.The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English. The prize has… More

2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerDavid Hinton for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) by Wang WeiThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More

2007 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

WinnerSandra Smith for her translation from the French of Suite Française (Knopf) by Irène NémirovskyThe PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English.… More

2007 PEN Translation Fund

WinnersSusan Bernofsky, for her translation from the German of Robert Walser’s 1908 novel The Assistant, the melancholy and mischievously ironic story of a penniless young man who works for… More

2012 PEN Translation Fund Grants

WinnersThe PEN Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from an anonymous donor in response to the dismayingly low number of literary… More