work, the NTA celebrates the craft of literary translation and strives to increase its visibility and broaden its market. The winner is announced each year at the ALTA Annual Conference. Recent winners 2020 Prose: Jordan Stump for The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French 2020 Poetry: Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi for Hysteria by Kim Yideum, translated from the Korean 2019 Prose: Karen Emmerich for What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos, translated from the Greek 2019 Poetry: Bill Johnston (translator) for Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz, translated from the Polish 2018 Prose: Charlotte Mandell for Compass by Mathias Enard, translated from the French 2018 Poetry: Katrine Øgaard Jensen for Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the Danish 2017 Prose: Esther Allen for Zama by Antonio di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish 2017 Poetry: Daniel Borzutzky for Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto, translated from the Spanish 2016 Prose: Elizabeth Harris for Tristano Dies: A Life by Antonio Tabucchi, translated from the Italian 2016 Poetry: Hilary Kaplan for Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese 2015 Prose: William M. Hutchins for New Waw, Saharan Oasis by Ibrahim Kuni, translated from the Arabic 2015 Poetry: Pierre Joris for Breathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan, translated from the French 2014: Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich for An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky, translated from the Russian 2013: Philip Boehm for The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller, translated from the German 2012: Sinan Antoon for In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic 2011: Lisa Rose Bradford for Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter by Juan Gelman, translated from the Spanish 2010: Alex Zucker for All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hůlová, translated from the Czech For a more complete list of past winners, see the main National Translation Award page. Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize In 2009, ALTA announced a $6,000 translation award named in honor of Lucien Stryk (1924-2013), acclaimed Zen poet and translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen poetry. The Lucien Stryk Prize is awarded annually to the translator of a book-length translation of Asian poetry, or source texts from Zen Buddhism. Eligible translations may be from Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, or Vietnamese into English. The Lucien Stryk Prize is intended for translations