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The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a U.S. literary award given by the Academy of American Poets to recognize a published translation of poetry from any language into English. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A list of famous Prizes Medals and Awards including cups trophies, Bowls Badges State decorations etc The Academy of American Poets is the preeminent organization in the United States dedicated to the art of Poetry. Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation A language is a dynamic set of visual auditory or tactile Symbols of Communication and the elements used to manipulate them English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The award was first given in 1976 to Robert Fitzgerald and was awarded biannually until 1987, when it began to be awarded annually. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Robert Stuart Fitzgerald ( 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was a poet critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar)

To be eligible for the award, the work must be published in the U. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view S. during the previous year in a "standard edition" of 40 pages or more with a run of 500 or more copies. The work must consist primarily of poetry, and translators must be living citizens of the United States to be eligible. Works by two translators are accepted, but poetry anthologies in which other translators' work is included are not. ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19

Award winners receive a US$1,000 award. A notable translator chooses the winner.

List of winners

2006: Richard Zenith, for Education by Stone: Selected Poems Willis Barnstone
2005: Daryl Hine, for Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books
2004: Charles Martin, for Metamorphoses by Ovid. The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books Charles Martin, is a Poet, Critic and Translator, was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up in The Bronx. The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including
2004: Anselm Hollo, for Trilogy by Pentti Saarikoski. Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (born April 12, 1934) is a Finnish poet and translator Pentti Saarikoski (Impilahti September 2 1937 – Joensuu August 24 1983) was the most important poet in the literary scene of
2003: W. S. Merwin, for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books William Stanley Merwin (born September 30 1927 in New York City) is an American poet Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century
2002: David Ferry, for The Epistles of Horace by Horace. The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books David Ferry (born 1924 is an American poet and translator Life Ferry was born in Orange New Jersey, and grew up and attended Columbia High School Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ( Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC known in the English-speaking world as Horace
2001: Clayton Eshleman, for Trilce by César Vallejo. The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books Clayton Eshleman (born June 1 1935) is an American poet, Translator, and editor. César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza ( March 16 1892 &ndash April 15 1938) was a Peruvian Poet.
2001: Edward Snow, for Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke. Edward Rowe Snow (1902-1982 was an American Author and Historian from Winthrop Massachusetts. The Duino Elegies ( German Duineser Elegien) are a set of ten elegies written in German by the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke from Rainer Maria Rilke (also Rainer Maria von Rilke (4 December 1875 &ndash 29 December 1926 is considered one of the German language 's greatest 20th century Poets
2000: Cola Franzen, for Horses in the Air by Jorge Guillén. The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books Jorge Guillén y Álvarez ( January 18, 1893 &ndash February 6, 1984) was a Spanish Poet
1999: W. D. Snodgrass, for Selected Translations. The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books William De Witt Snodgrass (born January 5 1926 in Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania) pseudonym S
1998: Louis Simpson, for Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology. The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is a Jamaican poet.
1997: David Hinton, for Landscape Over Zero, The Late Poems of Meng Chiao, The Selected Poems of Li Po. The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books
1996: Guy Davenport, for Seven Greeks. The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books Guy Mattison Davenport ( November 23 1927 – January 4 2005) was an American Writer, Translator, Illustrator
1995: Robert Pinsky, for The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation. The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books Robert Pinsky (born October 20 1940) is an American Poet, Essayist, literary critic, and Translator.
1994: Rosmarie Waldrop, for The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabès. The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, Translator and publisher Edmond Jabès ( Cairo, 1912 &ndash Paris, January 2 1991 was a Jewish writer and poet and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after
1993: Charles Simic, for The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry. The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books Charles Simic (ˈtʃ​͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ​͡ born Dušan Simić, May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Serbian
1992: John DuVal, for The Discovery of America by Cesare Pascarella. The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books Cesare Pascarella ( 28 April 1858 - 8 May 1940) was an Italian Dialect Poet and a painter
1992: Andrew Schelling, for Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India.
1991: Robert Fagles, for The Iliad by Homer. The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books Robert Fagles ( September 11, 1933 &ndash March 26, 2008) was an American Professor, poet, and academic The Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιάς (Ancient Ιλιάδα (Modern is together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the
1990: Stephen Mitchell, for Variable Directions by Dan Pagis. The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books Stephen Mitchell (b 1943 in Brooklyn New York) is a poet translator scholar and anthologist Dan Pagis (1930 – 1986 was an Israeli Poet and lecturer Born in Bukovina in Eastern Europe as a child he was imprisoned in a concentration camp
1989: Martin Greenberg, for Five Plays by Heinrich von Kleist. The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books Martin Harry Greenberg (born March 1[[ 941]] is a prolific American Speculative fiction anthologist and writer Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist ( October 18, 1777 &ndash November 21, 1811) was a German Poet, Dramatist,
1988: Peter Hargitai, for Perched on Nothing's Branch by Attila József. The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books Biography The son of Áron József a soap factory worker and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest
1987: Mark Anderson, for In the Storm of Roses by Ingeborg Bachmann. The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books Mark Anderson may refer to Mark Anderson (writer, American journalist and proponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare Mark Anderson (American Ingeborg Bachmann ( June 25, 1926 - October 17, 1973) was an Austrian Poet and Author
1986: William Arrowsmith, for The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale. The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books William Ayers Arrowsmith (1924–1992 was an American classicist Eugenio Montale ( October 12, 1896 — September 12, 1981) was an Italian Poet, prose writer editor and translator
1985: Edward Snow, for New Poems (1907) by Rainer Maria Rilke. The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books Edward Rowe Snow (1902-1982 was an American Author and Historian from Winthrop Massachusetts. Rainer Maria Rilke (also Rainer Maria von Rilke (4 December 1875 &ndash 29 December 1926 is considered one of the German language 's greatest 20th century Poets
1984: Robert Fitzgerald, for The Odyssey by Homer. The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books Robert Stuart Fitzgerald ( 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was a poet critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became The Odyssey ( Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the
1984: Stephen Mitchell, for The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Stephen Mitchell (b 1943 in Brooklyn New York) is a poet translator scholar and anthologist Rainer Maria Rilke (also Rainer Maria von Rilke (4 December 1875 &ndash 29 December 1926 is considered one of the German language 's greatest 20th century Poets
1982: Rika Lesser, for Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelöf. The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books Rika Lesser is a US Poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works Gunnar Ekelöf ( Stockholm, September 15, 1907 - Sigtuna, March 16, 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer
1980: Saralyn R. The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books Daly, for The Book of True Love by Juan Ruis.
1980: Edmund Keeley, for Ritsos in Parentheses. Edmund Leroy Keeley (born February 5, 1928 in Damascus, Syria) is an author translator and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English
1978: Galway Kinnell, for The Poems of François Villon. The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books Galway Kinnell (born February 1st 1927 in Providence Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century François Villon (in modern French fʀɑ̃swa viˈjɔ̃ in fifteenth-century French viˈlɔn (c
1978: Howard Norman, for The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians.
1976: Robert Fitzgerald, for The Iliad by Homer. The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books Robert Stuart Fitzgerald ( 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was a poet critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became The Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιάς (Ancient Ιλιάδα (Modern is together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the

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