Loose Translation Award

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.

Winners

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2023: Rebecca Suzuki
2022: Ellis Ging’s translation of Alfonso Sastre’s The Cells of Terror
2020: Saba Riazi’s translation of Mahsa Mohebali’s Lovemaking in the Footnotes
2019: Julia Johanne Tolo’s translation of Paal-Helge Haugen’s Anne: A Novel
Drums for a Lost Song
2017: Rob Gunther’s translation of Jorge Velasco Mackenzie’s Drums for a Lost Song
Translating Requiem
2015: Hoyt Jacobs’ translation of Anna Akhmatova, Translating “Requiem”
Inside My Own Skin
2014: Yves Henri Cloarec’s translation of Guillaume de Fonclare’s Inside My Own Skin
Still Life in Ditch
2013: Ilaria Papini’s translation of Fausto Paravidino’s Still Life in Ditch
This Beautiful Place
2012: Anne Posten’s translation of Tankred Dorst’s This Beautiful Place