Shortlist for 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry Announced

Alejandra Pizarnik's The Last Innocence/The Lost Adventures (translated by Cecilia Rossi) and Reina María Rodríguez's The Winter Garden Photograph (translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen) are among the poetry titles shortlisted for the 2020 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. The awards of $2,500 are administered by ALTA, and are the only national awards "for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that [include] a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work." The full list: 

The 2020 NTA Shortlist in Poetry (in alphabetical order by title):

The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic
by an unknown author
translated from the Greek by A.E. Stallings
(Paul Dry Books)

Hysteria
by Kim Yideum
translated from the Korean by Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, Hedgie Choi
(Action Books)

The Last Innocence/The Lost Adventures
by Alejandra Pizarnik
translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi
(Ugly Duckling Presse)

Room in Rome
by Jorge Eduardo Eielson
translated from the Spanish by David Shook
(Cardboard House Press)

Tell Me, Kenyalang
by Kulleh Grasi
translated from the Malay by Pauline Fan
(Circumference Books)

The Winter Garden Photograph
by Reina María Rodríguez
translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra with Nancy Gates Madsen
(Ugly Duckling Presse)

Winners will be announced at the ALTA Conference on Oct. 15. For the shortlist in Prose, and more info, head here. Congrats to all!