(This award was formerly named the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.)
1963 Archibald Colquhoun, The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto (Harcourt Brace), translated from the Italian
1964 Ralph Manheim, The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (Pantheon), translated from the German
1965 Joseph Barnes, The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky (Pantheon), translated from the Russian
1966 Geoffrey Skelton & Adrian Mitchell, MaratSade by Peter Weiss (Atheneum), translated from the German
1967 Harriet de Onis, Sagarana by J. Guimaraes Rosa (Knopf), translated from the Portuguese
1968 Vladimir Markov & Merrill Sparks, editors Modern Russian Poetry (Bobbs–Merrill), translated from the Russian
1969 W. S. Merwin, Selected Translations 1948-1968 (Atheneum), translated from various languages
1970 Sidney Alexander, The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini (Macmillan), translated from the Italian
1971 Max Hayward, Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Atheneum), translated from the Russian
1972 Richard & Clara Winston, Letters of Thomas Mann by Thomas Mann (Knopf), translated from the German
1973 J. P. McCullough, The Poems of Sextus Propertius by Propertius (University of California Press), translated from the Latin
1974 Hardie St. Martin & Leonard Mades, The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso (Knopf), translated from the Spanish
1975 Helen R. Lane, Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo (Viking Press/Richard Seaver Books), translated from the Spanish
1976 Richard Howard, A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran (Viking Press), translated from the French
1977 Gregory Rabassa, Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Harper & Row), translated from the Spanish
1978 Adrienne Foulke, One Way or Another by Leonardo Sciascia (Harper & Row), translated from the Italian
1979 Charles Wright, The Storm and other poems by Eugenio Montale (Oberlin College/Field Translation Series), translated from the Italian
1980 Charles Simic, Homage to the Lame Wolf by Vasko Popa (Oberlin College/Field Translation Series), translated from the Serbian
1981 John E. Woods, Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), translated from the German
1982 Hiroaki Sato & Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (Anchor Press/University of Washington Press), translated from the Japanese
1983 Richard Wilbur, Four Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives by Molière Jean Baptiste Poquelin De Moliere (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), translated from the French
1984 William Weaver, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), translated from the Italian
1985 Prose: Helen R. Lane, The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), translated from the Spanish
Poetry: Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1986 Prose: Barbara Bray, The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Pantheon), translated from the French
Poetry: Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life by Dennis Tedlock (Simon and Schuster), translated from the K’iche’
1987 John E. Woods, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (Knopf), translated from the German
1988 Madeline Levine & Francine Prose, A Scrap of Time by Ida Fink (Pantheon), translated from the Polish
1989 Matthew Ward, The Stranger by Albert Camus (Random House), translated from the French
1990 William Weaver, Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), translated from the Italian
1991 Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (North Point Press), translated from the Russian
1992 David Rosenberg, The Poet’s Bible (Hyperion), from the Hebrew
1993 Thomas Hoisington, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki (Northwestern University Press), translated from the Polish
1994 Bill Zavatsky & Zack Rogow, Earthlight by André Breton (Sun & Moon), translated from the French
1995 Burton Watson, Selected Poems of Su Tung–p’o (Copper Canyon), translated from the Chinese
1996 Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh, View With a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska (Harcourt), translated from the Polish
1997 Arnold Pomerans, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Viking), translated from the Dutch
1998 Peter Constantine, Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann (Sun & Moon), translated from the German
1999 Michael Hofmann, The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth (St. Martin’s), translated from the German
2000 Richard Sieburth, Selected Writings by Gerard De Nerval (Penguin), translated from the French
2001 Tiina Nunnally, Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset (Penguin), translated from the Norwegian
2002 Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Viking), translated from the Russian
2003 R.W. Flint, The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (New York Review of Books), translated from the Italian
2004 Margaret Sayers Peden, Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Mariner), translated from the Spanish
2005 Tim Wilkinson, Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz (Vintage), translated from the Hungarian
2006 Philip Gabriel, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Knopf), translated from the Japanese
2007 Sandra Smith, Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (Knopf), translated from the French
2008 Margaret Jull Costa, The Maias by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros (New Directions), translated from the Portuguese
2009 Natasha Wimmer, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (FSG), translated from the Spanish
2010 Michael Henry Heim, Wonder by Hugo Claus (Archipelago), translated from the Dutch
2011 Ibrahim Muhawi, Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books), translated from the Arabic
2012 Bill Johnston, Stone upon Stone by Wieslaw Mysliwski (Archipelago Books), translated from the Polish
2013 Donald O. White, The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis (Overlook Press), translated from the German
2014 Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov, Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books), translated from the Russian
2015 Denise Newman, Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt (Two Lines Press), translated from the Danish
2016 Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (New Directions), translated from the Portuguese
2017 Tess Lewis, Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap (Archipelago Books), translated from the German