American Literary Translators Association
LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Jae Kim of St. Louis won the 2022 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for his translation from the Korean of Lee Young-ju’s poetry collection Cold Candies (Black Ocean). He received $6,000. Annelise Finegan, Soeun Seo, and Emily Jungmin Yoon judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry or a text from Zen Buddhism translated from an Asian language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD Anna Chiafele of Auburn, Alabama, and Lisa Pike of Windsor, Canada, both won the 2022 Italian Prose in Translation Award for their translation from the Italian of Silvana La Spina’s work of fiction Penelope (Bordighera Press). They shared a prize of $5,000. Nerina Cocchi, Douglas Grant Heise, and Barbara Ofosu-Somuah judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
SPAIN-USA FOUNDATION TRANSLATION AWARD
Mara Faye Lethem of Barcelona won the 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for her translation from the Catalan of Max Besora’s novel The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia (Open Letter Books). She received $5,000. Peter Bush, Kevin Gerry Dunn, and Amaia Gabantxo judged. The annual award is given for a book of fiction or nonfiction whose author is of Spanish nationality and is translated from Spanish, Basque, Galician, or Catalan into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARDS
D. M. Black of London won the 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry for his translation from the Italian of Dante Alighieri’s work of poetry Purgatorio (New York Review Books Classics). Hélène Cardona, Boris Dralyuk, and Archana Venkatesan judged. Martin Aitken of Sorø, Denmark, won the 2022 National Translation Award in Prose for his translation from the Norwegian of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star (Penguin Press). Suzanne Jill Levine, Arunava Sinha, and Annie Tucker judged. Black and Aitken each received $2,500. The annual awards are given for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
American Literary Translators Association, University of Arizona, Esquire Building #205, 1230 North Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721. Rachael Daum, Communications and Awards Manager.
rachaeldaum@literarytranslators.org
literarytranslators.org/awards
Anhinga Press
ANHINGA PRIZE FOR POETRY
Katie Fuller of Gardner, Massachusetts, won the 2022 Anhinga Prize for Poetry for Careful. She received $2,000, and her book will be published by Anhinga Press in September. Erika Meitner judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is May 31.
Anhinga Press, Anhinga Prize for Poetry, P.O. Box 3665, Tallahassee, FL 32315. Kristine Snodgrass, Contact.
