Recent Winners
American Literary Translators Association
LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Don Mee Choi of Seattle won the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for her translation from the Korean of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry collection Autobiography of Death (New Directions). She received $5,000. Chenxin Jiang, Vivek Narayanan, and Hai-Dang Phan judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry or a text from Zen Buddhism translated from an Asian language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD
Simon Carnell and Erica Segre, both of Stretham, England, won the 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award for their translation from the Italian of Paolo Cognetti’s novel The Eight Mountains (Atria). They received $5,000. Allison Grimaldi-Donahue, Zakiya Hanafi, and Alta L. Price judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARDS
Bill Johnston of Bloomington, Indiana, won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry for his translation from the Polish of Adam Mickiewicz’s poetry collection Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania (Archipelago Books). Anna Deeny Morales, Cole Heinowitz, and Sholeh Wolpé judged. Karen Emmerich of New York City won the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose for her translation from the Greek of Ersi Sotiropoulos’s novel What’s Left of the Night (New Vessel Press). Bonnie Huie, Charlotte Mandell, and Jeffrey Zuckerman judged. Johnston and Emmerich each received $2,500. The annual awards are given for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
American Literary Translators Association, University of Arizona, Esquire Building #205, 1230 North Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721. Rachael Daum, Communications and Awards Manager.
rachaeldaum@literarytranslators.org
Anhinga Press
ANHINGA–ROBERT DANA PRIZE FOR POETRY
Caronae Howell of Tucson, Arizona, won the 2019 Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Index for September 11th. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Anhinga Press in September. Ching-In Chen judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 31.
Anhinga Press, Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, P.O. Box 3665, Tallahassee, FL 32315. Kristine Snodgrass, Contact. info@anhinga.org
Arts & Letters
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
of Los Angeles won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in poetry for “Making,” “November,” and “Theory.” of Morristown, Tennessee, won the Arts & Letters Prize in fiction for “Flight.” of Boulder, Colorado, won the Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction for “Demon Feeding.” They each received $1,000, and their winning works were published in. GennaRose Nethercott judged in poetry, Peter Nichols judged in fiction, and Pam Houston judged in creative nonfiction. The annual awards are given for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay. (SEE DEADLINES.)
