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, 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, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.
YearPoetBookJudges
2017Piotr FlorczykBuilding the Barricade by Anna ŚwirszczyńskaMarilyn Hacker
2016Ron PadgettZone: Selected Poems by Guillaume ApollinairePeter Cole
2015Roger GreenwaldGuarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar HardingBill Johnston
2014W. S. MerwinSelected TranslationsDavid Hinton
2013Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain GallaisFortino Sámano, Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc NancyErin Mouré
2012Jen HoferNegro Marfil / Ivory Black, Myriam MosconaPierre Joris
2011Jeffrey AnglesForest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada ChimakoCharles Martin
2010Stephen KesslerDesolation of the Chimera, Luis CernudaEdith Grossman
2009Avi SharonC. P. Cavafy: Selected PoemsJohn Balaban
2008Clayton EshlemanThe Complete Poetry of Cesar VallejoJerome Rothenberg
2007Robert FaglesThe Aeneid, Virgil Christopher Merrill
2007Susanna Niedit, Inger ChristensenChristopher Merrill
2006Richard ZenithEducation by Stone: Selected PoemsWillis Barnstone
2005Daryl HineWorks of Hesiod and the Homeric HymnsMark Strand
2004Charles MartinMetamorphoses, OvidRika Lesser
2004Anselm HolloPentii Saarikoski's TrilogyRika Lesser
2003W. S. MerwinSir Gawain and the Green Knight, AnonymousRobert Bly
2002David FerryThe Epistles of Horace, HoraceCarolyn Forché
2001Clayton EshlemanTrilce, César VallejoRon Padgett
2001Edward SnowDuino Elegies, Rainer Maria RilkeRon Padgett
2000Cola FranzenHorses in the Air, Jorge GuillénMarie Ponsot
1999W. D. Snodgrass Selected TranslationsWilliam Jay Smith
1998Louis SimpsonModern Poets of France: A Bilingual AnthologyRachel Hadas
1997David HintonLandscape Over Zero, Bei Dao
The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
The Selected Poems of Lí Po
Rosmarie Waldrop
1996Guy Davenport7 GreeksEliot Weinberger
1995Robert PinskyThe Inferno of Dante: A New Verse TranslationDavid Ferry
1994Rosmarie WaldropThe Book of Margins, Edmond JabèsRobert Hass
1993Charles SimicThe Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian PoetryCarolyn Kizer
1992John DuValThe Discovery of America, Cesare PascarellaEdmund Keeley
1992Andrew SchellingDropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient IndiaEdmund Keeley
1991Robert FaglesThe Iliad, HomerGregory Rabassa
1990Stephen MitchellVariable Directions, Dan PagisSerge Gavronsky
1989Martin Greenberg Heinrich von Kleist: Five PlaysJohn Hollander
1988Peter HargitaiPerched on Nothing's Branch, Attila JózsefMay Swenson
1987Mark AndersonIn the Storm of Roses, Ingeborg BachmannCharles Wright
1986William ArrowsmithThe Storm and Other Things, Eugenio MontaleW. S. Merwin
1985Edward SnowNew Poems , Rainer Maria Rilke Allen Mandelbaum
1984Robert FitzgeraldThe Odyssey, HomerWilliam Arrowsmith
1984Stephen MitchellThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria RilkeWilliam Arrowsmith
1982Rika LesserGuide to the Underworld, Gunnar EkelöfRichard Howard
1980Saralyn R. Daly The Book of True Love, Juan Ruis Charles Simic
1980Edmund KeeleyRitsos in ParenthesesCharles Simic
1978Galway KinnellThe Poems of François VillonMark Strand
1978Howard NormanThe Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree IndiansMark Strand
1976Robert FitzgeraldThe Iliad, HomerRichard Wilbur