Awards & Recognition

2024

• Shortlisted for the NBCC Gregg Barrios Prize | Kareem Abdulrahman & Bachtyar Ali | The Last Pomegranate Tree
• 2024 Sendak Fellow | Rocío Araya
• Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal | Sara Khalili & Siamak Herawi | Tali Girls
• Finalist for the French-American Prize | Jessica Moore | Maylis de Kerangal’s Eastbound
• Winner of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize | Judith Sollosy & Attila Bartis | The End

2023

• 2023 Gyldendal Prize | Hanne Ørstavik

• Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize | Tomasz Różycki & Mira Rosenthal | To The Letter
• Winner of the PEN Translates Award | Mark Polizzotti | Scholastique Mukasonga’s Kibogo
• Mildred L. Batchelder Honor | Roger Mello & Daniel Hahn | João by a Thread
• Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize | Roger Mello & Daniel Hahn | João by a Thread
• Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize | Cheon Myeong-kwan & Chi-Young Kim | Whale
• Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize | Bruna Dantas Lobato | Caio Fernando Abreu’s Moldy Strawberries
• Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize | Tess Lewis | Maja Haderlap’s Distant Transit
• New York Times’ Best Ten Books of 2023 | Maylis de Kerangal & Jessica Moore | Eastbound
• New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2023 | Boris Dralyuk, Jennifer Croft, Taras Prokhasko, & Marjana Prokhasko | Who Will Make The Snow?

2022

• Mildred L. Batchelder Honor | Hadi Mohammadi, Nooshin Safakhoo, & Sara Khalili | In the Meadow of Fantasies

2021

• Winner of the National Translation Award in Poetry | Geoffrey Brock | Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria
• Winner of the Camões Prize | Paulina Chiziane
• Winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom | Scholastique Mukasonga

2020

• Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award | Héctor Abad & Anne McLean| The Farm
• Inaugural Joseph Tusiani Translation Prize | Geoffrey Brock | Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria

2019

• PEN Translation Prize | Martin Aitken | Hanne Ørstavik’s Love
• Finalist for the National Book Awards for Translated Literature | Jordan Stump| Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman
• Winner of the Angolan National Prize for Culture and Arts | José Eduardo Agualusa

2018

• ALA Batchelder Honor Book | Roger Mello & Daniel Hahn | You Can’t Be Too Careful!
• Shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award | Antonio Moresco & Richard Dixon | Distant Light
• Winner of the Italian Prose in Translation Prize | Antonio Tabucchi & Elizabeth Harris | For Isabel: A Mandala

2017

• Nelly Sachs Prize | Bachtyar Ali
• International DUBLIN Literary Award | José Eduardo Agualusa & Daniel Hahn | A General Theory of Oblivion
• Laureate for the Jerusalem Prize in Literature | Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature | Jill Schoolman, Publisher of Archipelago Books
• PEN Translation Prize | Tess Lewis | Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion
• Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose | Scholastique Mukasonga & Jordan Stump | Cockroaches
• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award | Breyten Breytenbach
• Shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Prize | Antonio Moresco & Richard Dixon | Distant Light
• Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize | Abdellatif Laâbi & Donald Nicholson-Smith | In Praise of Defeat
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Donald Nicholson-Smith | Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat
• Finalist for the French-American Foundation’s Translation Award for Nonfiction | Jordan Stump | Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches
• North American Catalan Society Prize | Mary Ann Newman | Josep M. de Sagarra’s Private Life
• Longlisted for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award | Donald Nicholson-Smith | Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat
• Longlisted for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award | James O’Connor | Dulce Maria Loynaz’s Absolute Solitude 

2016

• ALTA National Translation Award | Elizabeth Harris | Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies
• Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize | José Eduardo Agualusa & Daniel Hahn | A General Theory of Oblivion
• Longlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Daniel Hahn | José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion

2015

• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Stacey Knecht | Bohumil Hrabal’s Harlequin’s Millions
• Longlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Melanie Mauthner | Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile

2014

• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | Edmund Keeley & Karen Emmerich | Yannis Ritsos’s Diaries of Exile
• French Voices Award | Scholastique Mukasonga | Our Lady of the Nile

2013

• French-American Foundation’s Translation Award for Fiction | Alyson Waters | Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric Times
• Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Sean Cotter | Nichita Stănescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke

2012

• American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award | Sinan Antoon | Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence
• PEN Translation Prize | Bill Johnston | Wieslaw Mysliwski’s Stone Upon Stone
• Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Bill Johnston | Wieslaw Mysliwski’s Stone Upon Stone
• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Best Literary Translation Into English Award | Bill Johnston | Wieslaw Mysliwski’s Stone Upon Stone
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Bill Johnston | Magdalena Tulli’s In Red
• Archipelago Books selected to be featured as part of WNYC’s Salute the Arts Initiative

 

2011

• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Joel Rotenberg | Ernst Weiss’s Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
• PEN Translation Prize | Ibrahim Muhawi | Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief
• Golden Sceptre for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Poland | Wieslaw Mysliwski
• Prix Max Jacob | Breyten Breytenbach |Voice Over

 

2010

• Morgenbladet Book of the Year Prize, Norway | Karl Ove Knausgaard | My Struggle: Book One
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award | Gerbrand Bakker | The Twin | trans. David Colmer
• Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity | Breyten Breytenbach |Voice Over
• PEN Translation Prize | Michael Henry Heim | Hugo Claus’s Wonder
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | David Colmer | Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Michael Henry Heim | Hugo Claus’s Wonder

 

2009

• Le Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française | Pierre Michon | The Eleven
• Brage Prize, Norway | Karl Ove Knausgaard | My Struggle: Book One
• Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize | Karl Ove Knausgaard | My Struggle: Book One
• Florence Gould Foundation | French-American Foundation Translation Prize | Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays | Pierre Michon’s Small Lives
• NPR Pick for Best Foreign Fiction | Gerbrand Bakker | The Twin | trans. David Colmer
• School Library Best Adult Book for High School Students | Gerbrand Bakker | The Twin
• Le Prix Goncourt de la Poésie | Abdellatif Laâbi
• Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Imre Goldstein | Attila Bartis’s Tranquility
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Peter Theroux | Elias Khoury’s Yalo
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s A Mind at Peace | Our edition of the novel was given to President Obama by a Turkish political leader so that “he may better understand Turkish culture and social history.”
• Literature From the Front Prize, Italy | Miljenko Jergovic | Sarajevo Marlboro

2008

• Found in Translation Award for Best Polish-English Translation of the Year | Bill Johnston | Tadeusz Rózewicz’s new poems
• American Association of Publishers Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing
• Shortlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award | Anne McLean | Julio Cortázar’s Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

2007

• Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award | Magdelena Tulli | Moving Parts
• National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Finalist | Bill Johnston | Tadeusz Rózewicz’s new poems

2006

• American Association of Publishers Best Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• New York Times Notable Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun | trans. Humphrey Davies
• One of Kansas City Star’s 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• Boldtype Notable Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Finalist | Miltos Sachtouris | Poems (1945 – 1971)

2005

• Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Notable Book | Yuri Rytkheu | A Dream in Polar Fog

2004

• Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize | Jody Gladding | Jean Giono’s The Serpent of Stars
• Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award | Karl Ove Knausgaard | A Time for Everything
• Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize | Karl Ove Knausgaard | A Time for Everything

2003

• Premio Grizane Cavour for Best Book in Translation, Italy | Miljenko Jergovic | Mama Leone
• Banes & Noble Discover Great New Writers | Joseph Coulson | The Vanishing Moon

2002

• Le Monde Diplomatique Book of the Year | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun
• Shortlisted for Sweden’s August Prize | Elisabeth Rynell | To Mervas
• ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year/Gold Seal in Literary Fiction | Joseph Coulson | The Vanishing Moon

 

1998

• Palestine Prize | Elias Khoury | Gate of the Sun

 

1995

• Koscielski Foundation Prize, Poland | Magdalena Tulli | Dreams and Stones
• Erich-Maria Remarque Peace Prize | Miljenko Jergovic | Sarajevo Marlboro

1994

• Ksaver Sandor Gjalski Award | Miljenko Jergovic | Sarajevo Marlboro

1979

• Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature | Nichita Stanescu

1975

• Herder Prize | Nichita Stanescu

1955

• Nobel Prize in Literature | Halldór Laxness