National Translation Award

NTA Submission Guidelines

The National Translation Award is a $5,000 prize awarded annually for the best book-length translation of a work into English. The winner is announced each year at ALTA’s annual conference. ALTA’s National Translation Award honors the translator whose work, by virtue of both its quality and significance, has made the most valuable contribution to literary translation in the preceding calendar year.

To be eligible, the translation must be:

  • by an American citizen or U.S. resident
  • from any language into English
  • of a book-length work of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism, philosophy, and biographies are not eligible),
  • published anywhere in the world during the previous year

The National Translation Award supports ALTA’s goal of enhancing the status and visibility of literary translation and translators, improving the quality of literary translations, and broadening the market for works in English translation.

For more information, please contact Maria Rosa Suarez at maria.suarez@utdallas.edu.

Click on a name to view more about that winner.


2010
Alex Zucker

 
2011
Lisa Rose Bradford

 
2012
Sinan Antoon

 

2009
Norman Shapiro
2008
Richard Wilbur
2007
Joel Agee
 

2006
Ellen Elias-Bursać
2005
Vincent Katz
2004
Aron Aji
 

2003
Jo Anne Engelbert
2002
E.H. and A.M. Blackmore
2001
Danuta Borchardt
 

2000
Howard Goldblatt
Sylvia Li-chun Lin
1999
Peter Constantine
1998
Carolyn Tipton