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.[1][2][3][4]
It's an award mentioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities, when awarding the National Humanities Medal.[5]
| Year | Poet | Book | Judges |
| 2021 | Maria Dahvana Headley | Beowulf: A New Translation | Indran Amirthanayagam |
| 2020 | Rajiv Mohabir | I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma | Daniel Borzutzky |
| 2019 | Clare Cavanagh | Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski | Dunya Mikhail |
| 2018 | David Larsen | Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh | Ammiel Alcalay |
| 2017 | Piotr Florczyk | Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska | Marilyn Hacker |
| 2016 | Ron Padgett | Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire | Peter Cole |
| 2015 | Roger Greenwald | Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding | Bill Johnston |
| 2014 | W. S. Merwin | Selected Translations | David Hinton |
| 2013 | Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais | Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy | Erín Moure |
| 2012 | Jen Hofer | Negro Marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona | Pierre Joris |
| 2011 | Jeffrey Angles | Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako | Charles Martin |
| 2010 | Stephen Kessler | Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda | Edith Grossman |
| 2009 | Avi Sharon | C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems | John Balaban |
| 2008 | Clayton Eshleman | The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo | Jerome Rothenberg |
| 2007 | Robert Fagles | The Aeneid by Virgil | Christopher Merrill |
| 2007 | Susanna Nied | it by Inger Christensen | Christopher Merrill |
| 2006 | Richard Zenith | Education by Stone: Selected Poems | Willis Barnstone |
| 2005 | Daryl Hine[6] | Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns | Mark Strand |
| 2004 | Charles Martin[7] | Metamorphoses by Ovid | Rika Lesser |
| 2004 | Anselm Hollo | Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy | Rika Lesser |
| 2003 | W. S. Merwin | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous) | Robert Bly |
| 2002 | David Ferry | The Epistles of Horace by Horace | Carolyn Forché |
| 2001 | Clayton Eshleman | Trilce by César Vallejo | Ron Padgett |
| 2001 | Edward Snow | Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke | Ron Padgett |
| 2000 | Cola Franzen[8] | Horses in the Air by Jorge Guillén | Marie Ponsot |
| 1999 | W. D. Snodgrass | Selected Translations | William Jay Smith |
| 1998 | Louis Simpson | Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology | Rachel Hadas |
| 1997 | David Hinton[9] | Landscape Over Zero by Bei Dao The Late Poems of Meng Chiao The Selected Poems of Lí Po |
Rosmarie Waldrop |
| 1996 | Guy Davenport | 7 Greeks | Eliot Weinberger |
| 1995 | Robert Pinsky | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation | David Ferry |
| 1994 | Rosmarie Waldrop | The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabès | Robert Hass |
| 1993 | Charles Simic | The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry | Carolyn Kizer |
| 1992 | John DuVal | The Discovery of America by Cesare Pascarella | Edmund Keeley |
| 1992 | Andrew Schelling | Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India | Edmund Keeley |
| 1991 | Robert Fagles[5][10] | The Iliad by Homer | Gregory Rabassa |
| 1990 | Stephen Mitchell | Variable Directions by Dan Pagis | Serge Gavronsky |
| 1989 | Martin Greenberg (poet) | Heinrich von Kleist: Five Plays | John Hollander |
| 1988 | Peter Hargitai | Perched on Nothing's Branch by Attila József | May Swenson |
| 1987 | Mark Anderson | In the Storm of Roses by Ingeborg Bachmann | Charles Wright |
| 1986 | William Arrowsmith | The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale | W. S. Merwin |
| 1985 | Edward Snow | New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke | Allen Mandelbaum |
| 1984 | Robert Fitzgerald[11] | The Odyssey by Homer | William Arrowsmith |
| 1984 | Stephen Mitchell[11] | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | William Arrowsmith |
| 1982 | Rika Lesser | Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelöf | Richard Howard |
| 1980 | Saralyn R. Daly | The Book of True Love by Juan Ruis | Charles Simic |
| 1980 | Edmund Keeley | Ritsos in Parentheses | Charles Simic |
| 1978 | Galway Kinnell | The Poems of François Villon | Mark Strand |
| 1978 | Howard Norman | The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians | Mark Strand |
| 1976 | Robert Fitzgerald | The Iliad by Homer | Richard Wilbur |
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- ^ a b "Two Translators Win $1,000 Landon Awards". The New York Times. April 21, 1984.