Awardees

For his translation of The Tale of the Heike (Viking, 2012). Tyler is at Australian National University.

Joint award, with Arkadi Klioutchanski, for their translation of My Life, the autobiography of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya, Leo Tolstoy’s wife of over fifty years. Woodworth is at the University of Ottawa.

Joint award, with Adnan Haydar, for their moving translation of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs, by the Syrian poet Adonis. Beard is at the University of North Dakota.

For the second volume of his monumental anthology and annotated translation of Japanese court poetry from the mid-9th to the late 11th century, entitled: A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance.

For his translation of Hans Erich Nossack’s The End: Hamburg 1943, available in a beautifully-designed edition of the haunting text on the destruction of the German port city.

For his translations of Cesare Pavese. Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2002) collects all of Pavese’s poems from 1930 until his death in 1950. Poet Rosanna Warren noted that these are “poems that have the density, the grit, the obdurate presentness hewn from silence for which Pavese fought so hard in Italian.”

For his translation of the Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.

Harman’s new translation of The Castle, by Franz Kafka, updates the 1930 Edwin Muir version and, in the words of the MLA citation, ensures “that its influence … will in the next century be as powerful as it has in this.” At the time, Harman was at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.