Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards

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The Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards, established in 1995, is given out by the American Academy of Poets for "outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry". The book award comes with a $5,000 book prize and the fellowship comes with $20,000. The book prizes and fellowships are given in alternating years.

"The fellowship is given to enable an American translator to travel, study, or otherwise advance a significant work-in-progress." The winner also receives a residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Translations may be published at anytime in the past — not necessarily in the year of the judging, but only books by living translators are eligible. The judges do not accept self-published books. Their decision is expected each March.

The fund for the awards was established through a bequest to the New York Community Trust by Sonia Raiziss Giop, a poet, translator, and long-time editor of Chelsea. The Trust selected the Academy to administer the award.

[edit] Winners

Year	Book prize/ Fellowship	Translator	Book and author	Judges
2005	Book prize	John DuVal	Tales of Trilussa, by Carlo Alberto Salustri	Geoffrey Brock, Charles Martin, Michael Palma
2004	Fellowship	Ann Snodgrass	Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni	Phillis Levin, Charles Martin, Michael Palma
2003	Book prize	Andrew Frisardi	The Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti	Phillis Levin, Rosanna Warren
2002	Fellowship	Michael Palma	Selected Poems of Giovanni Raboni	Elizabeth Alexander, Alfredo de Palchi, Dana Gioia, Rosanna Warren
2001	Book prize	Stephen Sartarelli	Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba Alfredo de Palchi	Dana Gioia, Charles Wright
2000	Fellowship	Emanuel di Pasquale	Sharing a Trip: Selected Poems, by Silvio Ramat	Alfredo de Palchi, Paolo Valesio, Charles Wright
1999	Book prize	John P. Welle, Ruth Feldman	Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova, by Andrea Zanzotto	Alfredo de Palchi, Jonathan Galassi, Paolo Valesio
1998	Fellowship	Geoffrey Brock	Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, by Cesare Pavese	Alfredo de Palchi, Jonathan Galassi, William Jay Smith
1997	Book prize	Michael Palma	The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano	Alfredo de Palchi, Jonathan Galassi, William Jay Smith
1996	Fellowship	Anthony Molino	Esercizi di tiptologia, by Valerio Magrelli	Alfredo de Palchi, Jonathan Galassi, Rosanna Warren
1996	Book prize	W. S. Di Piero	This Strange Joy: Selected Poems of Sandro Penna	Alfredo de Palchi, Jonathan Galassi, Rosanna Warren