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Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

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)

 

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