| Year | Name | Language | Translation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Anselm Hollo | Finnish | poetry by Pentti Saarakoski from Collected Poems (1978) and other works (Toothpaste Press) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Jack Brondum | Danish | short stories from Complete Freedom (1944) by Tove Ditlevsen (Subsequently published by Curbstone Press, 1982) | Nadia Christensen Prize | |
| 1981 | Kathlen Osgood Dana | Finnish | excerpts from the novel Here Beneath the Northern Star (1959-62) by Väino Linna | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Lucia Moburg | Swedish | lyrics from Frida’s Book (1922) by Birger Sjöberg | Nadia Christensen Prize | |
| 1982 | Kjersti Board | Swedish | excerpts from The Plough and the Sword (1975), a novel by Theodor Kallifatides | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Susanna Nied | Danish | poem, alfabet, (1981) by Inger Christensen | Nadia Christensen Prize | |
| 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) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 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) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 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) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 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) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 1988 | Frankie Shackelford | Norwegian | excerpt from The Ferry Crossing (1974), a novel in nynorsk by Edvard Hoem (Subsequently published by Garland Publishers, 1990) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 1989 | Anselm Hollo | Finnish | excerpt from Selected Poems by Paavo Haavikko (1949-1987) (Subsequently published by Carcanet Press) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 1990 | Roger Greenwald | Norwegian | poetry from Through Naked Branches (1946-1970) by Tarjei Vesaas | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 1991 | Erik Thygesen | Swedish | excerpt from Modus Vivendi, selected prose of Gunnar Ekelöf | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 1992 | Rika Lesser | Swedish | excerpt from: A Child is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi (Subsequently published by Princeton University Press, 1993) | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Aili and Austin Flint | Finnish | excerpts from: A Congregation of Birds by Marja-Liisa Vartio | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1993 | Ritva Poom | Finnish | selected short stories by Raija Siekkinen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Richard Impola | Finnish | Mathematical Beings by Leena Krohn | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1994 | Kirsten Seaver | Norwegian | excerpt from Love’s Comedy, a play by Henrik Ibsen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| William Halverson | Norwegian | The New Water (1987) by Roy Jacobsen (Subsequently published by Peer Gynt Press, 1997) | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1995 | Sonia Wichmann | Finland | excerpt from Chitambo, a novel by Hagar Olsson | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 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) | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1996 | Roger Greenwald | Danish | selected lyric poems by Pia Tafdrup | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Sverre Lyngstad | Dano-Nowegian | Tired Men (1891) by Arne Garborg Norwegian (Subsequently published by Northwestern University Press, 1999, under the title, Weary Men) | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1997 | Rose-Marie Oster | Swedish | The Knivethrower’s Woman, a poem by Kerstin Ekman | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Verne Moberg | Swedish | Aunt Blossom, a play by Kristina Lugn | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1998 | Thom Satterlee | Danish | selected poems of Henrik Nordbrandt | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Joel Tompkins | Swedish | selected short stories by Per Olof Sundman | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 1999 | Pétur Knútsson | Icelandic | selected poems by Árni Ibsen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Anastazia Little | Danish | selected autobiographical writings of Hans Christian Andersen | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2000 | Lotta M. Löfgren | Swedish | selected poems by August Strindberg | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Jon Stewart | Danish | philosophical texts by Johan Ludvig Heiberg | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2001 | Philip Roughton | Icelandic | Iceland’s Bell by Halldór Laxness | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Patrick Phillips | Danish | selected poems by Paul la Cour | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2002 | Rika Lesser | Swedish | Mozart’s Third Brain by Goran Sönnevi | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Stina Katchadourian | Swedish | selected poems from Tua Forsström’s After Spending a Night among Horses. | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2003 | Katarina Tucker | Swedish | Jerusalem’s Night by Sven Delblanc | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Britt Tippins | Danish | Bonsai by Kirsten Thorup | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2004 | Paul Norlen | Swedish | A Toast to Your Ashes:The Life of the Poet Bellman from Beginning to End by Ernst Brunner | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Ingrid Lansford | Danish | Love Stories from Many Lands by Meir Aron Goldschmidt. | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2005 | Marilyn Nelson | Danish | The Thirteenth Month by Inge Pedersen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Margareta Horiba | Swedish | The Girl in Tails by Hjalmar Bergman | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2006 | Victoria Häggblom-Arrias | Swedish | The Fog of Everything by Bruno K. Öijer | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Eva Allison | Swedish | Splendorville by Ellen Mattson | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2007 | Michele Simeon | Finnish | The Position of the Sun by Ranya Paasonen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Naomi Lebowitz | Danish | Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2008 | Patrick Phillips | Danish | Katedral by Henrik Nordbrandt | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 2009 | Tara Chace | Norwegian | All Children are Made of Fire by Nicolai Houm | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Sean Hughes | Danish | Cars and Animals: Short Stories by Helle Helle | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2010 | Steven Finney | Norwegian | Into the Mountain by Ingvar Ambjørnson | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 2011 | Michael Meigs | Swedish | The Dean by Lars Gustafsson | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 2012 | Martin Aitken | Danish | Hildegard, by Anne-Lise Marstrand-Jorgensen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Misha Hoekstra | Danish | You Disappear by Christian Jungersen | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2013 | Randi Ward | Faroese | Planks by Tóroddur Poulsen | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Sola O’Connell | Icelandic | selected poems by Gyrðir Elíasson | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2014 | Jonell Lockhart Kristensen | Danish | selected poems by Thorkild Bjørnvig | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| 2015 | Philip Roughton | Icelandic | Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Marcus Bror Cederström | Swedish | Rain & Thunder by Håkan Lindquist | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2016 | Barbara Sjoholm | Norwegian | Clearing Out by Helene Uri | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Kara Billey Thordarson | Icelandic | Stormwarning by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2017 | Maija Liisa Mäkinen | Finnish | Geography of Fear by Anja Snellman | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Melissa Bowers | Swedish | Witness to Meaningless Events by Jasim Mohamed | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2018 | Kelsi Vanada | Swedish | Atlantis by Marie Silkeberg | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Sherilyn Hellberg | Danish | Nike by Caspar Eric | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2019 | Larissa Kyzer | Icelandic | A First or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Mie Mortensen | Danish | A Girl and a Boy by Morten Brask | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| Olivia Lasky | Norwegian | Watch Over Those Who Sleep by Sigbjørn Skåden | Wigeland Prize | |
| 2020 | Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith | Danish | All the Birds in the Sky by Rakel Haslund Gjerrild | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Alexandra Glynn | Finnish | Hymns by Anna-Mari Kaskinen | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 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 | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Hunter Simpson | Danish | The Land of Short Sentences by Stine Pilgaard | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| 2022 | Rachel Willson-Broyles | Swedish | Mary by Aris Fioretos | Nadia Christensen |
| Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | Northern Sámi | Underfoot by Niillas Holmberg | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| Wendy Gabrielsen | Norwegian | Nada by Hanna Stoltenberg | Wigeland Prize | |
| 2023 | Mia Spangenberg | Finnish | Least Common Denominator by Pirkko Saisio | Nadia Christensen Prize |
| Rachel Britton | Icelandic | Woman Creature by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir | Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize | |
| Misha Hoekstra | Danish | As of Tonight I’m Sleeping on the Roof by Jens Christian Grøndahl | Inger and Jens Bruun Translation Prize, supported by the ScanDesign Foundation | |
| 2024 | Rachel Rankin | Norwegian | I Want to Wake Up to the World by Karoline Brændjord | Nadia Christensen |
| Wendy Gabrielsen | Norwegian | Bad Girls by Monica Goksøyr | Wigeland Prize | |
| Hazel Evans | Danish | Troll by Rasmus Daugbjerg | Inger and Jens Bruun Translation Prize, supported by the ScanDesign Foundation |