The Loose Translation Award is jointly sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation of Queens College, CUNY.
Past Winners
2012: Anne Posten’s translation of Tankred Dorst’s This Beautiful Place
2013: Ilaria Papini’s translation of Fausto Paravidino’s Still Life in Ditch
2014: Yves Henri Cloarec’s translation of Guillaume de Fonclare’s Inside My Own Skin
2015: Hoyt Jacobs’ translation of Anna Akhmatova, Translating “Requiem”
2017: Rob Gunther’s translation of Jorge Velasco Mackenzie’s Drums for a Lost Song
2019: Julia Johanne Tolo’s translation of Paal-Helge Haugen’s Anne: A Novel
22020: Saba Riazi’s translation of Mahsa Mohebali’s Lovemaking in the Footnotes
2022: Ellis Ging’s translation of Alfonso Sastre’s The Cells of Terror