David Hinton accepts the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. Finalists for the award, which recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published in the previous calendar year and is judged by a single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee, included James Reidel for his translation from the German of In Hora Mortis/Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems by Thomas Bernhard (Princeton University Press) and Paul Schmidt for his translation from the Russian of The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Various Authors (NYRB Classics).

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