PEN / Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is given for a distinguished book-length translation, from any language into English, published in the current calendar year.

2004

Winner:  Sepharad, by Antonio Munoz Molina, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Nominees:
  • Street of Lost Footsteps, by Lyonel Trouillot, translated by Linda Coverdale
  • The Liberated Bride, by A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin

2003

Winner:  The Moon and the Bonfires, by Cesare Pavese; translated by R.W. Flint
Nominees:
  • Nonrequired Reading, by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
  • This Blinding Absence of Light, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

2002

Winner:  Anna Karenina: a novel in eight parts, by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Nominees:
  • The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
  • The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman

2001

Winner:  Kristin Lavransdatter III - The Cross, by Sigrid Unset; translated by Tiina Nunnally
Nominees:
  • The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
  • Journal 1935-1944 by Mihail Sebastian, translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller

2000

Winner:  Selected Writings by Gerard De Nerval; translated by Richard Sieburth
Nominees:
  • Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife, by Sigrid Unset; translated by Tiina Nunnally
  • Selected Non-fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger

1999

The Tale of the 1002nd Night, by Joseph Roth; translated by Michael Hofman
1998

Six Early Stories, by Thomas Mann; translated by Peter Constantin
1997

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw; translated by Arnold Pomerans

1996

View With a Grain of Sand, by Wislawa Szymborska; translated by Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh

1995

Selected Poems of Su Tung–p'o, translated by Burton Watson

1994

Earthlight by André Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky & Zack Rogow

1993

The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, by Ignacy Krasicki; translated by Thomas Hoisington

1992

The Poet's Bible, David Rosenberg

1991

The Brothers Karamazov : a novel in four parts with epilogue, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

1990

Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco; translated by William Weaver

1989

The Stranger, by Albert Camus; translated by Matthew Ward

1988

A Scrap of Time, by Ida Fink; translated by Madeline Levine & Francine Prose

1987

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, John E. Woods

1986

Prose: The Lover, by Marguerite Duras; translated by Barbara Bray
Poetry: Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, Dennis Tedlock

1985

Prose: The War at the End of the World, by Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Helen R. Lane
Poetry: Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney

1984

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

1983

Four Comedies: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur

1982

From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry; translated by Hiroaki Sato & Burton Watson

1981

Evening Edged in Gold, by Arno Schmidt; translated by John E. Woods

1980

Homage to the Lame Wolf, by Vasco Popa; translated by Charles Simic

1979

The Storm and other poems, by Eugenio Montale; translated by Charles Wright

1978

One Way or Another, by Leonardo Sciascia; translated by Adrienne Foulke

1977

Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa

1976

A Short History of Decay, by E. M. Cioran; translated by Richard Howard

1975

Count Julian, by Juan Goytisolo; translated by Helen R. Lane

1974

The Obscene Bird of Night, by Jose Donoso; translated by Hardie St. Martin & Leonard Mades

1973

The Poems of Sextus Propertius, J. P. McCullough

1972

Letters of Thomas Mann, Richard & Clara Winston

1971

Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam; translated by Max Hayward

1970

The History of Italy, by Francesco Guicciardini; translated by Sidney Alexander

1969

Selected Translations, 1948-1968, by W. S. Merwin

1968

Modern Russian Poetry, Vladimir Markov & Merrill Sparks, editors

1967

Sagarana, by J. Guimaraes Rosa; translated by Harriet de Onis

1966

Marat \ Sade, by Peter Weiss; translated by Geoffrey Skelton & Adrian Mitchell

1965

The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky; translated by Joseph Barnes

1964

The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass; translated by Ralph Manheim

1963

The Viceroys, by Federico de Roberto; translated by Archibald Colquhoun

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