National Translation Award

The National Translation Award is an annual prize given by the American Literary Translators Association to an exceptional translation of a book-length work published in the preceding calendar year. As of 2010 the prize is worth $5,000.^[1] The award is usually given to translations of previously untranslated contemporary works or first-time translations of older works, but important re-translations have also been honored.

The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the NTA by the ALTA and recognizes the best translation into English of book-length texts of Asian poetry or Zen Buddhism. The prize was established by an anonymous donor in 2010 and is worth $5,000.^[1] It named for Lucien Stryk, an American Zen poet and translator.

The awards are announced and honored at the annual ALTA conference held each fall.

National Translation Award

Year	Translator	Subject and author	Language
2014	Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich[2]	An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky	Russian
2013	Philip Boehm[3]	The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller	German
2012	Sinan Antoon[3]	In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish	Arabic
2011	Lisa Rose Bradford[3]	Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter by Juan Gelman	Spanish
2010	Alex Zucker[3]	All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hůlová	Czech
2009	Norman R. Shapiro [4]	French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen (anthology)	French
2008	Richard Wilbur	The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille	French
2007	Joel Agee	The Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)	German (Swiss)
2006	Ellen Elias-Bursać	Götz and Meyer by David Albahari	Serbian
2005	Vincent Katz	The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Sextus Propertius)	Latin
2004	Aron Aji	The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu	Turkish
2003	Jo Anne Engelbert	The Return of the River by Roberto Sosa	Spanish
2002	E.H. and A.M. Blackmore	Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo	French
2001	Danuta Borchardt	Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz	Polish
2000	Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Lin	Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu Tien-wen	Chinese
1999	Peter Constantine	The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-eight New Stories by Anton Chekhov	Russian
1998	Carolyn Tipton	To Painting by Rafael Alberti	Italian

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

Year	Translator	Book and author	Language	Ref(s)
2015	Eleanor Goodman	Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni	Chinese	[5]
2014	Jonathan Chaves	Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing	Chinese	[6]
2013	Lucas Klein	Notes on the Mosquito by Chuan Xi	Chinese	[7]
2012	Don Mee Choi	All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon	Korean	[8]
2011	Charles Egan	Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China	Chinese	[9]
2010	Red Pine (Bill Porter)	In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu by Wei Ying-wu	Chinese	[1][10]

References

1. "ALTA Honors Translations of Czech, Chinese Works", Oct 26 2010.
2. "NTA Winner: An Invitation For Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky, translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky & Matvei Yankelevich", Nov. 16, 2014, Erica Mena
3. American Literary Translators Association. National Translation Award.
4. "Shapiro Awarded 2009 Translation Award for French Women Poets Anthology", Nov. 30, 2009, Olivia Bartlett Drake
5. "Eleanor Goodman reads her Lucien-Stryn-Winning translation Something Crosses My Mind". American Literary Translators Association. October 30, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
6. "Stryk Prize Awarded to Jonathan Chaves". Retrieved October 30, 2015.
7. "Stryk Winner 2013". National Translation Award. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
8. "Stryk Winner 2012". National Translation Award. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
9. "Stryk Winner 2011". National Translation Award. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
10. "Stryk Winner 2010". National Translation Award. Retrieved August 6, 2014.

External links

• The National Translation Award