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journal Some of the 2004 Translation Fund winners were featured in Issue 6 of the PEN literary journal, "Metamorphoses." More 
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Translation Fund Grant Winners
2004  Andrea Berger, from the Hungarian Bestiarium Transylvaniae, vol. I: The Birds of
the Air by Zsolt Lang 

Philip Boehm from the German Landnahme by Christoph Hein

Peter Cole, The Dream of the Poem: the Hebrew Poetry of Muslim and Christian Spain, c. 950–1492

Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, from the Spanish The Night by Jaime Saenz

Idra Novey, from the Portuguese poetry of Paulo Henriques Britto

Joonseong Park, from the Korean contemporary short stories and novellas by Song Yong

Kristin Prevallet, from the French The Other World: Unpublished Writings by Sony Labou Tansi

Timothy Sergay, from the Russian A Gloom Descends Upon the Ancient Steps by Aleksandr Pavlovich Chudakov

Gerald Turner, from the Czech Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik

Elizabeth Winslow, from the Arabic The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail     


2005  Chris Andrews, from the Spanish Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

Rachel Tzvia Back, from the Hebrew Selected Poetry of Lea Goldberg

Susan Bernofsky, from the German The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck

Heather Cleary, from the Spanish The Persuasion of Days by Olivero Girondo

Karen Emmerich, from the Greek Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris

Jason Grunebaum, from the Hindi The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash

Deborah Hoffman, from the Russian Children of the Gulag, ed. Semen Samuilovich Vilenskii

Elizabeth Macklin, from the Basque Meanwhile, Take My Hand: Poems by Kirmen Uribe

Susanna Nied, from the Danish It by Inger Christensen

Laima Sruoginis, from the Lithuanian My Voices Betrays Me by Vanda Juknaite

George Szirtes, from the Hungarian War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Paul Vincent, from the Dutch Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon

Susan Wilf, from the Chinese Disastrous Letters by Kang Zhengguo


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