PEN Literary Award Winners Translation

Awards List

2016

The Physics of Sorrow (Finalist)
Georgi Gospodinov

Apr-2015
/ Fantasy

The Hollow Heart (Finalist)
Viola Di Grado

Jun-2015
/ General Fiction

Complete Stories (Finalist)
Clarice Lispector

Aug-2015
/ General Fiction

The Blizzard (Finalist)
Vladimir Sorokin

Dec-2015
/ Historical

2015

Baboon (Winner)
Naja Marie Aidt

Oct-2014
/ Literary

Falling Out of Time (Finalist)
David Grossman

Mar-2014
/ Literary

A Corner of the World (Finalist)
Mylene Fernandez Pintado

Sep-2014
/ Literary

2014

The Decameron (Winner)
Giovanni Boccaccio

1886
/ General Fiction

The End of Love (Finalist)
Marcos Giralt Torrente

Oct-2013
/ Science Fiction

Light and Dark (Finalist)
Natsume Soseki

Dec-2013
/ Literary

2013

The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis (Winner)
Albert Vigoleis Thelen

Sep-2012
/ General Fiction

Near to the Wild Heart (Finalist)
Clarice Lispector

Jun-2012
/ Literary

The Cardboard House (Runner-Up)
Martin Adan

Oct-2012
/ General Fiction

Down the Rabbit Hole (Finalist)
Juan Pablo Villalobos

Oct-2012
/ Literary

A Long Day's Evening (Finalist)
Bilge Karasu

Nov-2012
/ Historical

2012

Stone Upon Stone (Winner)
Wieslaw Mysliwski

Jan-2011
/ Literary

The Land at the End of the World (Runner-Up)
Antonio Lobo Antunes

1979
/ Literary

2011

The Thousand and One Nights (Runner-Up)
Trans. Malcolm Lyons

Feb-2010
/ General Fiction

Hocus Bogus (Runner-Up)
Emile Ajar

Mar-2010
/ Literary

2010

Wonder (Winner)
Hugo Claus

Jul-2009
/ General Fiction

2008

The Maias (Winner)
Eca de Queiros / Jose Maria Eca De Queiros

Jul-1999
/ General Fiction

2007

Suite Francaise (Winner)
Irene Nemirovsky

Apr-2006
/ Historical

54 (Finalist)
Wu Ming

Jul-2006
/ Thriller

Measuring the World (Finalist)
Daniel Kehlmann

Nov-2006
/ General Fiction

2006

Kafka on the Shore (Winner)
Haruki Murakami

2002
/ General Fiction

The Noodle Maker (Finalist)
Ma Jian

Jan-2005
/ General Fiction

Unformed Landscape (Finalist)
Peter Stamm

Apr-2005
/ General Fiction

2005

The Cello Player (Finalist)
Michael Kruger

Jan-2004
/ General Fiction

Green Wheat (Finalist)
Colette

May-2004
/ Literary

2004

Sepharad (Winner)
Antonio Munoz Molina

Dec-2003
/ General Fiction

Street of Lost Footsteps: Rue Des Pas-Perdus (Finalist)
Lyonel Trouillot

Nov-2003
/ Literary

2003

The Moon and the Bonfire (Winner)
Cesare Pavese

Jan-2002
/ Literary

This Blinding Absence of Light (Finalist)
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Sep-2005
/ General Fiction

2002

Anna Karenina (Winner)
Leo Tolstoy

1877
/ Historical

The Hothouse (Finalist)
Wolfgang Koeppen

Jun-2001
/ General Fiction

The Feast of the Goat (Finalist)
Mario Vargas Llosa

Nov-2001
/ General Fiction

2001

The Cross (Winner)
Sigrid Undset

May-1984
/ Historical Romance

The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (Finalist)
Arthur Japin

Nov-2000
/ General Fiction

2000

Selected Writings (Winner)
Gerard De Nerval

Sep-1999
/ General Fiction

The Wife (Finalist)
Sigrid Undset

Nov-1999
/ General Fiction

1999

The Tale of the 1002nd Night (Winner)
Joseph Roth

Nov-1998
/ General Fiction

The Castle (Finalist)
Franz Kafka

/ General Fiction

The Book of Blam (Finalist)
Aleksandar Tisma

Mar-2000
/ General Fiction

1998

Six Early Stories (Winner)
Thomas Mann

Oct-2003
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Art of the Essay

Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Kroll Award: Illustrated Children's Book

Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult

Open Book

Picture Book

R. Bingham Fellowship

Translation

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

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