Announcing the PEN Longlists, Pt. 4
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation & Translation Prize Longlists
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000):
For a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2015.
JUDGE: Urayoán Noel
LONGLIST:
The Country of Planks by Raúl Zurita (Action Books), translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky
Oxen Rage by Juan Gelman (co-im-press), translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford
The School of Solitude: Collected Poems by Luis Hernández (Swan Isle Press), translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist
The Late Poems of Wang An-shih (New Directions), translated from the Chinese by David Hinton
Twelve Stations by Tomasz Różycki (Zephyr Press), translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas (Phoneme Media) translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan
I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books), translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
Silvina Ocampo (New York Review Books Poets), translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss
Uyghurland, the Furthest Exile by Ahmatjan Osman (Phoneme Media), translated from the Uyghur and Arabic by Jeffrey Yang with the author
PEN Translation Prize ($3,000):
For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2015.
JUDGES: Elisabeth Jaquette, Aviya Kushner, Ronald Meyer, Sara Nović, and Jeffrey Zuckerman
LONGLIST:
The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company), translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (New Directions), translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah (AmazonCrossing), translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell
The Game for Real by Richard Weiner (Two Lines Press), translated from the Czech by Benjamin Paloff
Sphinx by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum Publishing), translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Penguin Classic), translated from the Russian by Oliver Ready
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (Open Letter Books), translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press/Margellos World Republic of Letters),
translated from the French by Phoebe Weston-Evans
See all the announced longlists here.