PEN Translation Prize

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The PEN Translation Prize is an annual award for book-length prose translations from any language into English, and published in the United States.

Who voted: Each year, the Awards Committee selects approximately four litterateurs to serve as judges. Nominations may come from members, anonymous nomination panels, or both. Judges are also encouraged to submit their own nominations.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site 11 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17008 Verdigris Michele Mari 2007 Unknown Italian
17008 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
17008 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17008 A Country For Dying Abdellah Taïa 2015 French French
17008 The Ten Loves Of Nishino Hiromi Kawakami 2003 Japanese Japanese
14901 Love Hanne Ørstavik 1997 Norwegian Norwegian
17008 Katalin Street Magda Szabó 1969 Hungarian Hungarian
17008 Angel Of Oblivion Maja Haderlap 2011 Austrian German
4653 The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector 2016 Brazilian Portuguese
14901 Baboon Naja Marie Aidt 2006 Danish Danish
17008 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
2787 The Island Of Second Sight Albert Vigoleis Thelen 1953 German English
9052 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
17008 Journal Of An Ordinary Grief Mahmoud Darwish 1973 Palestinian Arabic
17008 Wonder Hugo Claus 1962 Belgian Dutch
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
969 The Maias Eça de Queirós 1888 Portuguese Portuguese
1448 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 2004 French French
1199 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
3618 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
425 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese 1950 Italian Italian
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
297 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
17008 Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
5907 The Tale Of The 1002nd Night Joseph Roth 1938 Austrian German
17008 Six Early Stories Thomas Mann 1997 German German
7660 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
14165 View With A Grain Of Sand Wislawa Szymborska 1995 Polish Polish
17008 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17008 Earthlight André Breton 1923 French French
17008 The Adventures Of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom Ignacy Krasicki 1776 Polish Polish
17008 The Poet’s Bible David Rosenberg 1991 Unknown English
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
1214 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
17008 A Scrap Of Time Ida Fink 1985 Polish Polish
511 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 German German
296 The Lover Marguerite Duras 1984 French French
2497 Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock 1985 Mayan K'iche'
1077 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
17008 Sweeney Astray Seamus Heaney 1983 Irish English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
17008 Four Comedies Molière 1982 French French
17008 From The Country Of Eight Islands Hiroaki Sato, Burton Watson 1981 Multiple English
14901 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
17008 Homage To The Lame Wolf Vasko Popa 1979 Serbian Serbo-croatian
8607 The Storm And Other Things Eugenio Montale 1978 Italian Italian
17008 One Way Or Another Leonardo Sciascia 1974 Italian Italian
1633 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez 1975 Colombian Spanish
4935 A Short History Of Decay Emil Cioran 1949 French French
3423 Count Julian Juan Goytisolo 1970 Spanish Spanish
4394 The Obscene Bird Of Night José Donoso 1970 Chilean Spanish
17008 Poems Of Sextus Propertius Propertius -29 Roman Latin
17008 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
14861 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1970 Russian Russian
17008 The History Of Italy Francesco Guicciardini 1540 Italian Italian
17008 Selected Translations 1948–1968 W. S. Merwin 1969 American English
17008 Modern Russian Poetry Vladimir Markov, Merrill Sparks 1967 Unknown English
6955 Sagarana Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1946 Brazilian Portuguese
13887 Marat Sade Peter Weiss 1963 German German
14740 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
1418 The Viceroys Federico De Roberto 1894 Italian Italian