Year | Name | Nationality | Translation |
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1980 | Anselm Hollo | Finnish | poetry by Pentti Saarakoski from Collected Poems (1978) and other works (Toothpaste Press) |
Jack Brondum | Danish | short stories from Complete Freedom (1944) by Tove Ditlevsen (Subsequently published by Curbstone Press, 1982) | |
1981 | Kathlen Osgood Dana | Finnish | excerpts from the novel Here Beneath the Northern Star (1959-62) by Väino Linna |
Lucia Moburg | Swedish | lyrics from Frida’s Book (1922) by Birger Sjöberg | |
1982 | Kjersti Board | Swedish | excerpts from The Plough and the Sword (1975), a novel by Theodor Kallifatides |
Susanna Nied | Danish | poem, alfabet, (1981) by Inger Christensen | |
1983 | No award made | ||
1984 | Tiina Nunnally | Danish | excerpts from Childhood (1967), a novel by Tove Ditlevsen (Subsequently published by Seal Press, 1985, under the title, Early Spring) |
1985 | John F. West | Danish | excerpts from The Good Hope (1983), a novel by William Heinesen (Faroe Islands) (To be published by New Amsterdam Books, 1991) |
1986 | Stephen Klass Leif Sjöberg |
Swedish | the first 29 poems of Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space (1974) by Harri Martinson (To be published by Verkerum in 1991) |
1987 | Robert Bjork | Swedish | excerpts from Land of Wooden Gods (1940), a historical trilogy by Jan Fridegård (Subsequently published by the University of Nebraska Press, 1990) |
1988 | Frankie Shackelford | Norwegian | excerpt from The Ferry Crossing (1974), a novel in nynorsk by Edvard Hoem (Subsequently published by Garland Publishers, 1990) |
1989 | Anselm Hollo | Finnish | excerpt from Selected Poems by Paavo Haavikko (1949-1987) (Subsequently published by Carcanet Press) |
1990 | Roger Greenwald | Norwegian | poetry from Through Naked Branches (1946-1970) by Tarjei Vesaas |
1991 | Erik Thygesen | Swedish | excerpt from Modus Vivendi, selected prose of Gunnar Ekelöf |
1992 | Rika Lesser | Swedish | excerpt from: A Child is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi (Subsequently published by Princeton University Press, 1993) |
Aili and Austin Flint | Finnish | excerpts from: A Congregation of Birds by Marja-Liisa Vartio | |
1993 | Ritva Poom | Finnish | selected short stories by Raija Siekkinen |
Richard Impola | Finnish | Mathematical Beings by Leena Krohn | |
1994 | Kirsten Seaver | Norwegian | excerpt from Love’s Comedy, a play by Henrik Ibsen |
William Halverson | Norwegian | The New Water (1987) by Roy Jacobsen (Subsequently published by Peer Gynt Press, 1997) | |
1995 | Sonia Wichmann | Finland | excerpt from Chitambo, a novel by Hagar Olsson |
Roger Greenwald | Norwegian | selected poems (1980, 1987) by Paal-Helge Haugen (Subsequently published by the Sun & Moon Press, 1997, under the title, Wintering With The Light) | |
1996 | Roger Greenwald | Danish | selected lyric poems by Pia Tafdrup |
Sverre Lyngstad | Dano-Nowegian | Tired Men (1891) by Arne Garborg Norwegian (Subsequently published by Northwestern University Press, 1999, under the title, Weary Men) | |
1997 | Rose-Marie Oster | Swedish | The Knivethrower’s Woman, a poem by Kerstin Ekman |
Verne Moberg | Swedish | Aunt Blossom, a play by Kristina Lugn | |
1998 | Thom Satterlee | Danish | selected poems of Henrik Nordbrandt |
Joel Tompkins | Swedish | selected short stories by Per Olof Sundman | |
1999 | Pétur Knútsson | Icelandic | selected poems by Árni Ibsen |
Anastazia Little | Danish | selected autobiographical writings of Hans Christian Andersen | |
2000 | Lotta M. Löfgren | Swedish | selected poems by August Strindberg |
Jon Stewart | Danish | philosophical texts by Johan Ludvig Heiberg | |
2001 | Philip Roughton | Icelandic | Iceland’s Bell by Halldór Laxness |
Patrick Phillips | Danish | selected poems by Paul la Cour | |
2002 | Rika Lesser | Swedish | Mozart’s Third Brain by Goran Sönnevi |
Stina Katchadourian | Swedish | selected poems from Tua Forsström’s After Spending a Night among Horses. | |
2003 | Katarina Tucker | Swedish | Jerusalem’s Night by Sven Delblanc |
Britt Tippins | Danish | Bonsai by Kirsten Thorup | |
2004 | Paul Norlen | Swedish | A Toast to Your Ashes:The Life of the Poet Bellman from Beginning to End by Ernst Brunner |
Ingrid Lansford | Danish | Love Stories from Many Lands by Meir Aron Goldschmidt. | |
2005 | Marilyn Nelson | Danish | The Thirteenth Month by Inge Pedersen |
Margareta Horiba | Swedish | The Girl in Tails by Hjalmar Bergman | |
2006 | Victoria Häggblom-Arrias | Swedish | The Fog of Everything by Bruno K. Öijer |
Eva Allison | Swedish | Splendorville by Ellen Mattson | |
2007 | Michele Simeon | Finnish | The Position of the Sun by Ranya Paasonen |
Naomi Lebowitz | Danish | Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan | |
2008 | Patrick Phillips | Danish | Katedral by Henrik Nordbrandt |
2009 | Tara Chace | Norwegian | All Children are Made of Fire by Nicolai Houm |
Sean Hughes | Danish | Cars and Animals: Short Stories by Helle Helle | |
2010 | Steven Finney | Norwegian | Into the Mountain by Ingvar Ambjørnson |
2011 | Michael Meigs | Swedish | The Dean by Lars Gustafsson |
2012 | Martin Aitken | Danish | Hildegard, by Anne-Lise Marstrand-Jorgensen |
Misha Hoekstra | Danish | You Disappear by Christian Jungersen | |
2013 | Randi Ward | Faroese | Planks by Tóroddur Poulsen |
Sola O’Connell | Icelandic | selected poems by Gyrðir Elíasson | |
2014 | Jonell Lockhart Kristensen | Danish | selected poems by Thorkild Bjørnvig |
2015 | Philip Roughton | Icelandic | Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness |
Marcus Bror Cederström | Swedish | Rain & Thunder by Håkan Lindquist | |
2016 | Barbara Sjoholm | Norwegian | Clearing Out by Helene Uri |
Kara Billey Thordarson | Icelandic | Stormwarning by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir | |
2017 | Maija Liisa Mäkinen | Finnish | Geography of Fear by Anja Snellman |
Melissa Bowers | Swedish | Witness to Meaningless Events by Jasim Mohamed | |
2018 | Kelsi Vanada | Swedish | Atlantis by Marie Silkeberg |
Sherilyn Hellberg | Danish | Nike by Caspar Eric | |
2019 | Larissa Kyzer | Icelandic | A First or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir |
Mie Mortensen | Danish | A Girl and a Boy by Morten Brask | |
Olivia Lasky | Norwegian | Watch Over Those Who Sleep by Sigbjørn Skåden | |
2020 | Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith | Danish | All the Birds in the Sky by Rakel Haslund Gjerrild |
Alexandra Glynn | Finnish | Hymns by Anna-Mari Kaskinen | |
2021 | Randi Ward | Faroese | What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium by Kim Simonsen |
Hunter Simpson | Danish | The Land of Short Sentences by Stine Pilgaard | |
2022 | Rachel Willson-Broyles | Swedish | Mary by Aris Fioretos |
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | Sámi | Underfoot by Niillaas Holmberg | |
Wendy Gabrielsen | Norwegian | Nada by Hanna Stoltenberg |