List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award by the Academy of American Poets

Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...

, for a published translation of poetry from any language into English. A noted translator chooses the winning book.

It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...

, when awarding the National Humanities Medal

National Humanities Medal

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Year	Poet	Book	Judges
2009	Avi Sharon Avi Sharon -Life:He graduated from Emory University, and Boston University, with a Ph.D. in Classics, where he studied under Donald Carne-Ross and William Arrowsmith....	C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems	John Balaban John Balaban John B. Balaban is an American poet and translator, an authority on Vietnamese literature.-Biography:Balaban was born in a housing project neighborhood in Philadelphia to Romanian immigrant parents, Phillip and Alice Georgies Balaban...
2008	Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor.-Life:Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960s. He is the recipient of the National Book Award in 1979 for his co-translation of César Vallejo's Complete Posthumous Poetry...	The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo	Jerome Rothenberg Jerome Rothenberg Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance.-Early life and work:...
2007	Robert Fagles Robert Fagles Robert Fagles was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer...	The Aeneid, Virgil	Christopher Merrill Christopher Merrill Christopher Merrill is an American poet, essayist, journalist and translator. Currently, he serves as director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He led the initiative that resulted in the selection of Iowa City as a UNESCO City of Literature, a part of the Creative...
2007	Susanna Nied Susanna Nied -Life:Her work has appeared in Poetry East, Scandinavian Review,She attended the University of Georgia Symposium on Literary Translation, Oct. 2-3 2008.-Awards:* 2007 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award* 2005 The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation...	it, Inger Christensen	Christopher Merrill Christopher Merrill Christopher Merrill is an American poet, essayist, journalist and translator. Currently, he serves as director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He led the initiative that resulted in the selection of Iowa City as a UNESCO City of Literature, a part of the Creative...
2006	Richard Zenith Richard Zenith Richard Zenith is an American writer and translator.-Awards:* 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship* 2006 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award-Reviews:...	Education by Stone: Selected Poems	Willis Barnstone Willis Barnstone Willis Barnstone is an American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus . He is also a New Testament and Gnostic scholar.-Life:Born in Lewiston, Maine, Barnstone grew...
2005	Daryl Hine Daryl Hine Daryl Hine is a Canadian poet and translator.-Life:Daryl Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in New Westminster B.C. He attended McGill University in Montreal 1954-58...	Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns	Mark Strand Mark Strand Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
2004	Charles Martin	Metamorphoses, Ovid	Rika Lesser Rika Lesser Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.-Life:Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things , and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C...
2004	Anselm Hollo Anselm Hollo Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo is a Finnish poet and translator. He has lived in the United States since 1967.-Life and work:...	Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy	Rika Lesser Rika Lesser Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.-Life:Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things , and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C...
2003	W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous	Robert Bly Robert Bly Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...
2002	David Ferry David Ferry (poet) David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator. He has published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism.-Life:...	The Epistles of Horace, Horace	Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...
2001	Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor.-Life:Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960s. He is the recipient of the National Book Award in 1979 for his co-translation of César Vallejo's Complete Posthumous Poetry...	Trilce, César Vallejo	Ron Padgett Ron Padgett Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...
2001	Edward Snow Edward Snow Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.-Life:He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D....	Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke	Ron Padgett Ron Padgett Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...
2000	Cola Franzen Cola Franzen -Life:She has published fifteen books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.She is a member of ALTA and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by I.A. Richards, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication...	Horses in the Air, Jorge Guillén	Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily...
1999	W. D. Snodgrass	Selected Translations	William Jay Smith William Jay Smith William Jay Smith is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.- Life :...
1998	Louis Simpson Louis Simpson Louis Aston Marantz Simpson is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.-Life:...	Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology	Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Classics: Essays , and her most recent poetry collection is The Ache of Appetite . Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B...
1997	David Hinton David Hinton -Life:He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan. He lives in East Calais, Vermont.-Awards:* 1997 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award* fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation...	Landscape Over Zero, Bei Dao The Late Poems of Meng Chiao The Selected Poems of Lí Po	Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
1996	Guy Davenport Guy Davenport Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.-Life:...	7 Greeks	Eliot Weinberger Eliot Weinberger Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...
1995	Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...	The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation	David Ferry David Ferry David Ferry may refer to:* David Ferry , Canadian-born actor* David Ferry , American poet and translatorSee also*David Ferrie, pilot...
1994	Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...	The Book of Margins, Edmond Jabès	Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
1993	Charles Simic Charles Simic Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...	The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry	Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:...
1992	John DuVal John DuVal John Tabb DuVal was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1940, and grew up in Jenkintown, a suburb of Philadelphia. He holds an A.B. in English from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master's in French, a...	The Discovery of America, Cesare Pascarella	Edmund Keeley Edmund Keeley Edmund Leroy Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P...
1992	Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling (born January 14, 1953 Washington D.C. is an American poet and translator.-Life:He grew up in New England. He moved west to Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas. He studied at...	Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India	Edmund Keeley Edmund Keeley Edmund Leroy Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P...
1991	Robert Fagles Robert Fagles Robert Fagles was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer...	The Iliad, Homer	Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa is a renowned literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English who currently teaches at Queens College.-Life and career:Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, U.S., into a family headed by a Cuban émigré...
1990	Stephen Mitchell	Variable Directions, Dan Pagis	Serge Gavronsky Serge Gavronsky -Life:He fled Hitler in 1941. He graduated from Columbia University, and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College. He lives in New York City.-Poetry:* Lectures et compte-rendu, poèmes. Coll...
1989	Martin Greenberg (poet) Martin Greenberg (poet) Martin Greenberg is an American poet and translator.-Life:He was the son of a Jewish couple, immigrants from Lithuania. His elder brother, Clement Greenberg became the most influential art critic in the U.S. in the 1950's - 1970's. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Served in World War...	Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays	John Hollander John Hollander John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...
1988	Peter Hargitai Peter Hargitai Peter Hargitai is an award winning poet, novelist, and translator of Hungarian literature.-Life:He was born in Budapest, Hungary and as a child lived in the small town of Balástya. At the age of nine, he immigrated with his family shortly after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution...	Perched on Nothing's Branch, Attila József	May Swenson May Swenson Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright...
1987	Mark Anderson	In the Storm of Roses, Ingeborg Bachmann	Charles Wright Charles Wright Charles Wright may refer to:Charles Wright , American botanistCharles Frederick Wright , U.S. Representative from PennsylvaniaCharles Wright , Nottinghamshire and England cricketerC. S...
1986	William Arrowsmith William Arrowsmith William Ayres Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator.-Life:Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts...	The Storm and Other Things, Eugenio Montale	W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...
1985	Edward Snow Edward Snow Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.-Life:He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D....	New Poems [1907], Rainer Maria Rilke	Allen Mandelbaum Allen Mandelbaum Allen Mandelbaum was a American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. He was the W. R...
1984	Robert Fitzgerald Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin...	The Odyssey, Homer	William Arrowsmith William Arrowsmith William Ayres Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator.-Life:Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts...
1984	Stephen Mitchell	The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke	William Arrowsmith William Arrowsmith William Ayres Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator.-Life:Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts...
1982	Rika Lesser Rika Lesser Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.-Life:Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things , and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C...	Guide to the Underworld, Gunnar Ekelöf	Richard Howard Richard Howard Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
1980	Saralyn R. Daly Saralyn R. Daly Saralyn Ruth Daly is an American writer and translator.-Life:She earned a Ph.D from Ohio State University in English in 1950...	The Book of True Love, Juan Ruis	Charles Simic Charles Simic Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
1980	Edmund Keeley Edmund Keeley Edmund Leroy Keeley is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a prize-winning novelist and a noted expert on Greek poets C. P...	Ritsos in Parentheses	Charles Simic Charles Simic Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
1978	Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...	The Poems of François Villon	Mark Strand Mark Strand Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
1978	Howard Norman Howard Norman Howard A. Norman , is an American award-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, Eskimo, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages.-Early...	The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians	Mark Strand Mark Strand Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
1976	Robert Fitzgerald Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin...	The Iliad, Homer	Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....

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