The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is a prize that recognizes the best translation into English of book-length texts of Asian poetry or Zen Buddhism. It was established by an anonymous donor in 2010, and is named for Lucien Stryk, the American Zen poet and translator.
The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the National Translation Award (NTA) in Prose and Poetry, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), and the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). These awards are announced and honored at the annual ALTA conference held each fall. The winner receives $6,000.[1]
The prize is named after Lucien Stryk, an internationally acclaimed translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen poetry, Zen poet, and former professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Although primarily intended to recognize the translation of contemporary works, re-translations, or first-time translations of important older works, are also considered. Eligible works include book-length translations into English of Asian poetry, or source texts from Zen Buddhism, book-length translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Kannada, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English. Submitted works must have been published in the previous calendar year.
| Year | Translator(s) | Book and Author | Language | Ref(s) | |
| 2023 | Wong May | In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty | Chinese | ||
| 2022 | Jae Kim | Cold Candies, by Lee Young-ju | Korean | [2] | |
| 2021 | Archana Venkatesan | Endless Song, translation of Thiruvaymozhi by Nammalvar | Tamil | [3] | |
| 2020 | Jake Levine, Soeun Seo, and Hedgie Choi | Hysteria by Kim Yideum | Korean | [4] | |
| 2019 | Don Mee Choi | Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon | Korean | [5] | |
| 2018 | Chinese | [6] | |||
| 2017 | Chinese | [7] | |||
| 2016 | Japanese | [8] | |||
| 2015 | Chinese | [9] | |||
| 2014 | Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing | Chinese | [10] | ||
| 2013 | Chinese | [11] | |||
| 2012 | Korean | [12] | |||
| 2011 | Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China | Chinese | [13] | ||
| 2010 | Red Pine (Bill Porter) | Chinese | [14] |