Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is a prize that recognizes the best translation into English of book-length texts of Asian poetry or Zen Buddhism. It was established by an anonymous donor in 2010, and is named for Lucien Stryk, the American Zen poet and translator.

The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the National Translation Award (NTA) in Prose and Poetry, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), and the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). These awards are announced and honored at the annual ALTA conference held each fall. The winner receives $6,000.[1]

About the prize

The prize is named after Lucien Stryk, an internationally acclaimed translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen poetry, Zen poet, and former professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Although primarily intended to recognize the translation of contemporary works, re-translations, or first-time translations of important older works, are also considered. Eligible works include book-length translations into English of Asian poetry, or source texts from Zen Buddhism, book-length translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Kannada, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English. Submitted works must have been published in the previous calendar year.

Winners of the prize
YearTranslator(s)Book and AuthorLanguageRef(s)
2022 Jae Kim Cold Candies, by Lee Young-ju Korean [2]
2021 Archana Venkatesan Endless Song, translation of Thiruvaymozhi by Nammalvar Tamil [3]
2020 Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi Hysteria by Kim Yideum Korean [4]
2019 Don Mee Choi Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon Korean [5]
2018 Bonnie HuieNotes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinChinese[6]
2017 Jennifer FeeleyNot Written Words by Xi XiChinese[7]
2016 Sawako NakayasuThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa by Chika SagawaJapanese[8]
2015 Eleanor GoodmanSomething Crosses My Mind by Wang XiaoniChinese[9]
2014 Jonathan ChavesEvery Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel WritingChinese[10]
2013 Lucas KleinNotes on the Mosquito by Xi ChuanChinese[11]
2012 Don Mee ChoiAll the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim HyesoonKorean[12]
2011 Charles EganClouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of ChinaChinese[13]
2010 Red Pine (Bill Porter)In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu by Wei Ying-wuChinese[14]

References
  1. "Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize - The American Literary Translators Association". www.literarytranslators.org. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  2. Ga-young, Park (9 October 2022). "Translation work of poet Lee Young-ju's "Cold Candies" receives award". The Korea Herald.
  3. "Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize Winners | The American Literary Translators Association". literarytranslators.org. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. "Stryk Prize Winners". American Literary Translators Association. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  5. "Stryk Prize Winners". American Literary Translators Association. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  6. "Announcing the Winner of the 2018 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize!". November 2018.
  7. "Announcing the Winner of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize!". 10 October 2017.
  8. "Announcing the Winner of the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize!". November 2016.
  9. "Eleanor Goodman reads her Lucien-Stryn-Winning translation Something Crosses My Mind". American Literary Translators Association. October 30, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  10. "Stryk Prize Awarded to Jonathan Chaves". 16 November 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  11. "Stryk Winner 2013". National Translation Award. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  12. "Stryk Winner 2012". National Translation Award. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  13. "Stryk Winner 2011". National Translation Award. Archived from the original on September 13, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  14. "Stryk Winner 2010". National Translation Award. Archived from the original on September 13, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
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