Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners
2022
- Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
- Honorable mention: Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, for Private Notebooks, 1914–1916, by Ludwig Wittgenstein (W. W. Norton, 2022)
- Honorable mention: Petra Reid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and Jim Dingley, Margate, United Kingdom, for Alindarka’s Children, by Alhierd Bacharevič (New Directions, 2022)
2021
- Sasha Dugdale, West Sussex, United Kingdom, for In Memory of Memory: A Romance, by Maria Stepanova (New Directions, 2021)
- Honorable Mention: Jennifer Grotz, University of Rochester, and Piotr Sommer, Sulejówek, Poland, for Everything I Don’t Know: Selected Poems, by Jerzy Ficowski (World Poetry Books, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Mariana Past, Dickinson College, and Benjamin Hebblethwaite, University of Florida, for Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, by Michael-Rolph Trouillot (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2021)
2020
- Clint Bruce, Université Sainte-Anne, for Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition (Historic New Orleans Collection, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Margaret Jull Costa, Leicester, United Kingdom, and Patricio Ferrari, Rutgers University, Newark, for The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro, by Fernando Pessoa (New Directions, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Joel Scott, Berlin, Germany, for The Aesthetics of Resistance, volume 2, by Peter Weiss (Duke Univ. Press, 2020)
2019
- Robert Chandler, London, England, and Elizabeth Chandler, London, England, for Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman (New York Review Books, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Virlana Tkacz, Yara Arts Group, and Wanda Phipps, Yara Arts Group, for What We Live For, What We Die For, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale Univ. Press, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Jonathan Wright, London, England, for The Book of Collateral Damage, by Sinan Antoon (Yale Univ. Press, 2019)
2018
- Damion Searls, Brooklyn, New York, for Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, by Uwe Johnson (New York Review Books, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Asselin Charles, Toronto, Canada, for Dézafi, by Frankétienne (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Donald Rayfield, emeritus, Queen Mary University of London, for volume 1 of Kolyma Stories, by Varlam Shalamov (New York Review Books, 2018)
2017
- Susan Bernofsky, Columbia University, for Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions, 2017)
- Honorable mention: Alistair Ian Blyth, Bucharest, Romania, for The Book of Whispers, by Varujan Vosganian (Yale Univ. Press, 2017)
2016
- Liam Mac Con Iomaire, Blackrock, Ireland, and Tim Robinson, Roundstone, Ireland, for Graveyard Clay / Cré na Cille: A Narrative in Ten Interludes, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale Univ. Press, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Esther Allen, Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York, for Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto (New York Review Books, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Amy B. Reid, New College of Florida, for Mount Pleasant, by Patrice Nganang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016)
2014
- Maureen Freely, University of Warwick, and Alexander Dawe, Istanbul, Turkey, for The Time Regulation Institute, by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (Penguin, 2014)
- Honorable mention: Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, London, England, for The Captain’s Daughter, by Alexander Pushkin (New York Review Books, 2014)
- Honorable mention: Aaron Poochigian, Columbia University, for Jason and the Argonauts, by Apollonius of Rhodes (Penguin, 2014)
2012
- Royall Tyler, Australian National University, for The Tale of the Heike (Viking, 2012)
- Honorable mention: Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, London, England, for Happy Moscow, by Andrey Platonov (New York Review Books, 2012)
- Honorable mention: Peter Cole, New Haven, Connecticut, for The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale Univ. Press, 2012)
- Honorable mention: Christina E. Kramer, University of Toronto, for Freud’s Sister, by Goce Smilevski (Penguin, 2012)
- Honorable mention: Gordon M. Sayre, University of Oregon, for The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic, by Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2012)
2010
- John Woodsworth, University of Ottawa, and Arkadi Klioutchanski, University of Ottawa, for My Life, by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (Univ. of Ottawa Press, 2010)
- Honorable mention: Jonathan Tittler, Rutgers University, Camden, for Changó, the Biggest Badass, by Manuel Zapata Olivella (Texas Tech Univ. Press, 2010)
2008
- Adnan Haydar, University of Arkansas, and Michael Beard, University of North Dakota, for Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs (Aghânî Mihyâr al-Dimashqî), by Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) (BOA Editions, 2008)
- Honorable mention: Michael Berry, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Susan Chan Egan, Santa Barbara, California, for The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi (Columbia Univ. Press, 2008)
2006
- Edwin A. Cranston, Harvard University, for A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance (Stanford Univ. Press, 2006)
2004
- Joel Agee, Brooklyn, New York, for The End: Hamburg 1943 (Der Untergang: Hamburg 1943), by Hans Erich Nossack (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004)
2002
- Geoffrey Brock, San Francisco, California, for Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, by Cesare Pavese (Copper Canyon, 2002)
2000
- John Felstiner, Stanford University, for his translation Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (W. W. Norton, 2000)
1998
- Mark Harman, University of Pennsylvania, for The Castle, by Franz Kafka (Schocken Books, 1999)