Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners
2022
- Oksana Maksymchuk, University of Chicago, and Max Rosochinsky, Chicago, Illinois, for The Voices of Babyn Yar, by Marianna Kiyanovska (Harvard Univ. Press, 2022)
- Honorable mention: Andrew Fitzsimons, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, for Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō (Univ. of California Press, 2022)
- Honorable mention: Jonathan Green, University of North Dakota, for Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight (Routledge, 2022)
2021
- Eric Henry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan / 說苑, by Liu Xiang (Univ. of Washington Press, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Mariam Rahmani, University of California, Los Angeles, for In Case of Emergency, by Mahsa Mohebali (Feminist Press, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Emma Ramadan, Brooklyn, New York, for In Concrete, by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum, 2021)
2020
- Jack Jung, Davidson College; Sawako Nakayasu, Brown University; Don Mee Choi, Seattle, WA; and Joyelle McSweeney, University of Notre Dame, for Yi Sang: Selected Works (Wave Books, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Anastasiya Lyubas, Mississauga, Canada, for Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Creative Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Alan Verskin, University of Rhode Island, for A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide: A Translation of Hayyim Habshuh’s Travelogue (Stanford Univ. Press, 2019)
Please note that books published in 2020 were eligible for this year’s award, as were books published in 2019 but submitted in 2020 while the MLA offices were closed because of the pandemic.
2019
- Daisy Rockwell, North Bennington, Vermont, for A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There, by Krishna Sobti (Penguin Random House India, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Eric M. B. Becker, Jackson Heights, New York, for Rain and Other Stories, by Mia Couto (Biblioasis, 2019)
- Honorable mention: David Connolly, Athens, Greece, and Joshua Barley, Melbourn, England, for A Greek Ballad, by Michális Ganás (Yale Univ. Press, 2019)
2018
- Linda Coverdale, Brooklyn, New York, for Slave Old Man, by Patrick Chamoiseau (New Press, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Ellen Elias-Bursać, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and David Williams, Raglan, New Zealand, for Fox, by Dubravka Ugresic (Open Letter Press, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Michael Hofmann, University of Florida, Gainesville, for Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin (New York Review Books, 2018)
2017
- Alissa Valles, Boston University, for Our Life Grows, by Ryszard Krynicki (New York Review Books, 2017)
- Honorable mention: Jeffrey Yang, Beacon, NY, for City Gate, Open Up, by Bei Dao (New Directions, 2017)
2016
- Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University, for The Book of the Dead, by Orikuchi Shinobu (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Margaret Jull Costa, Leicester, United Kingdom, for On the Edge, by Rafael Chirbes (New Directions, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Sam Taylor, Texarkana, Texas, for The Heart, by Maylis de Kerangal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016)
2015
- Fred Bridgham, University of Leeds, and Edward Timms, University of Sussex, for The Last Days of Mankind, by Karl Kraus (Yale Univ. Press, 2015)
- Honorable mention: Thoraya El-Rayyes, Amman, Jordan, for The Perception of Meaning, by Hisham Bustani (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2015)
- Honorable mention: Dorothy Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, for Marie de France: Poetry (W. W. Norton, 2015)
2013
- Nathaniel E. Dubin, Saint John’s University (emeritus), for his translation of The Fabliaux (Liveright, 2013)
- Honorable mention: Jason Grunebaum, University of Chicago, for his translation of The Girl with the Golden Parasol, by Uday Prakash (Yale Univ. Press, 2013)
- Honorable mention: John Nathan, University of California, Santa Barbara, for his translation of Light and Dark, by Natsume Sōseki (Columbia Univ. Press, 2013)
2011
Robert M. Durling, University of California, Santa Cruz, for The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, volume 3: Paradiso (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Shushan Avagyan, American University of Armenia, for Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar, by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
- Honorable mention: C. Dickson, Vaulnaveys, France, for At the Café and The Talisman, by Mohammed Dib (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Imre Goldstein, Tel Aviv, Israel, for Parallel Stories, by Péter Nádas (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria, for The Book of John Mandeville with Related Texts (Hackett, 2011)
2009
- Breon Mitchell, Indiana University, for The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
- Honorable mention: Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, for Edward Hopper by Ernest Farrés (Graywolf Press, 2009)
2007
- Timothy Billings, Middlebury College, and Christopher Bush, Northwestern University, for Stèles, by Victor Segalen (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2007)
2005
- Wilson Baldridge, Wichita State University, for Recumbents: Poems (Gisants: Poèmes), by Michel Deguy (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2005)
2003
- Mary Hudson, Brooklyn, New York, for Fable for Another Time (Féerie pour une autre fois 1), by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2003)
- Honorable mention: Eliot Weinberger, New York, New York, for Altazor; or, A Voyage in a Parachute: Poems in VII Cantos (1919), by Vicente Huidobro (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2003)
2001
- E. H. Blackmore, Scarborough, Western Australia, and A. M. Blackmore, Curtin University, for Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001)
1999
- Norman R. Shapiro, Wesleyan University, for One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999)
1996–97
- Peter Cole, Jerusalem, Israel, for Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (Princeton Univ. Press, 1997)
1994–95
- David Ball, Smith College, for Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927–1984 (Univ. of California Press, 1994)
- Carol Maier, Kent State University, for Memoirs of Leticia Valle, by Rosa Chacel (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1994)
- Honorable mention: Harold B. Segel, for The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890–1938 (Purdue Univ. Press, 1995)
1992–93
- Estelle Gilson, for The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba (Sheep Meadow Press, 1993)
*Books published in 2020 were eligible for the 2020 competition, as were books published in 2019 but submitted in 2020 while the MLA offices were closed because of the pandemic.