2010 PEN Literary Awards

2010 PEN Literary Awards

Translation Prizes
PEN/TUCK AWARD FOR PARAGUAYAN LITERATURE ($3,000)
Winner: Esteban Bedoya for El apocalipsis según Benedicto (Arandurã Editorial)

PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION ($3,000)
Winner: Anne Carson for her translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (Faber & Faber)

Runners-up:
Seamus Heaney for his translation from the Scots of The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables by Robert Henryson (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Rika Lesser for her translation from the Swedish of Mozart's Third Brain by Göran Sonnevi (Yale University Press)

PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE ($3,000)
Winner: Michael Henry Heim for his translation from the Dutch of Wonder by Hugo Claus (Archipelago Books)
Runners-up:
Esther Allen for her translation from the Spanish of Rex by Jose Manuel Prieto (Grove Press)
David Constantine for his translation from the German of Faust 2 by Goethe (Penguin Classics)