PEN Translation Prize

Given by PEN America

Other Names: PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
143 Works 270,097 Books 5,866 Reviews ½ 4.0
Stages:
All, Winner (64), Finalist (2), Shortlist (36), Longlist (41)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (10), 2019 (10), 2018 (9), 2017 (10), 2016 (9), 2015 (9), 2014 (10), 2013 (6), 2012 (3), 2011 (2), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (2), 2007 (3), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (3), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1985 (2), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1)

Winner 64

WorkCategoryYear
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma2023
Migratory Birds (Undelivered Lectures) by Mariana Oliver2022
A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa2021
The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi KawakamiAllison Markin Powell2020
Love by Hanne OrstavikMartin Aitken2019
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó2018
Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap2017
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector2016
Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt2015
Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigismund Krzyżanowski2014
The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen2013
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski2012
Bones Will Crow by ko ko thett2012
Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish2011
Wonder by Hugo Claus2010
2666 by Roberto Bolaño2009
The Maias by Eça de Queirós2008
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky2007
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami2006
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész2005
Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina2004
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese2003
Anna Karenina by León Tolstói2002
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset2001
Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval2000
The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth1999
Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann1998
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh1997
View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska1996
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'o by Su Dongpo1995
Earthlight by André Breton1994
The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki1993
A Poet's Bible: Rediscovering the Voices of the Original Text by David Rosenberg1992
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky1991
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco1990
The Stranger by Albert Camus1989
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories by Ida Fink1988
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind1987
The Lover by Marguerite Duras1986
Popol Vuh by Quiché Maya1986
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney1985
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa1985
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco1984
Four comedies by Molière1983
From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry by Hiroaki Sato1982
Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt1981
Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems by Vasko Popa1980
The Storm and Other Poems by Eugenio Montale1979
One Way or Another by Leonardo Sciascia1978
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez1977
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran1976
Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo1975
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso1974
Poems of Sextus Propertius by J. P. McCulloch1973
Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Thomas Mann1972
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam1971
The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini1970
Selected Translations 1948-1968 by W. S. Merwin1969
Modern Russian Poetry: an anthology with verse translations by Vladimir Markov1968
Sagarana by João Guimarães Rosa1967
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss1966
The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovski1965
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass1964
The Viceroys by Federico De Roberto1963

Finalist 2

WorkCategoryYear
The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel by Tomihiko MorimiEmily Balistrieri2023
Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2010

Shortlist 36

WorkYear
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco2018
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman2018
The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes2018
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo2018
Confessions by Rabee Jaber2017
The Vegetarian by Han Kang2017
Between Life and Death by Yoram Kaniuk2017
Justine by Iben Mondrup2017
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado2016
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov2016
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin2016
The Symmetry Teacher: A Novel by Andrei Bitov2015
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa2015
Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye2015
The Gray Notebook by Josep Pla2015
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman2014
The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa2014
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth2014
Transit by Anna Seghers2014
The Cardboard House by Martín Adán2013
The Land at the End of the World: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes2013
A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu2013
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector2013
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos2013
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish2012
Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary2011
Rex: A Novel by Jose Manuel Prieto2010
The Waitress Was New (Archipelago Books) by Dominique Fabre2009
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig2009
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev2008
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann2007
54 by Wu Ming2007
The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian2006
The Cello Player by Michael Krüger2005
Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot2004
The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua2004

Longlist 41

WorkCategoryYear
Beyond Babylon by Igiaba ScegoAaron Robertson2020
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukAntonia Lloyd-Jones2020
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie AidtDenise Newman2020
Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Seong-nan HaJanet Hong2020
If You Cross the River by Geneviève DamasJody Gladding2020
The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan SeisenbayevJohn Farndon, Olga Nakston2020
The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe UhartMaureen Shaughnessy2020
Happiness, As Such by Natalia GinzburgMinna Zallman Proctor2020
At Dusk by Hwang Sok-YongSora Kim-Russell2020
The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei CalinescuAdriana Calinescu2019
Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana TolstayaAnya Migdal2019
Trick by Domenico StarnoneJhumpa Lahiri2019
Mourning by Eduardo HalfonLisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn2019
Nevada Days (MacLehose Press Editions) by Bernardo AtxagaMargaret Jull Costa2019
Moon Brow by Shahriar MandanipourSara Khalili2019
The Stone Building and Other Places by Aslı ErdoğanSevinç Türkkan2019
Disoriental by Négar DjavadiTina Kover2019
CoDex 1962: A Trilogy by SjónVictoria Cribb2019
Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz by Georges Didi-Huberman2018
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou2018
Notes of a Crocodile by Miaojin Qiu2018
The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian2018
One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michele Audin2017
Limbo Beirut by Hilal Chouman2017
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke2017
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller2017
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel by Sjón2017
Sphinx by Anne Garréta2016
The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon2016
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano2016
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah2016
The Game for Real by Richard Weiner2016
The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer by Thierry Cruvellier2015
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz2015
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics) by Tove Jansson2015
The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura2015
Shantytown by César Aira2014
Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic by Hélène Cixous2014
The Dinner by Herman Koch2014
The Infatuations by Javier Marías2014
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach2014

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Formerlly known as PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (1963-2008)

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The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is an annual award given to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN American Center and the Book of the Month Club since 1963.

The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $3,000. Any book-length English translation published in the United States during the year in question is eligible, irrespective of the residence or nationality of either the translator or the original author.

Award was renamed PEN Translation Prize (2009-present)

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