PEN Translation Prize [SEP] conferred by
PEN Translation Prize
The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by the PEN American Center to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN American Center and the Book of the Month Club since 1963. It was the first award in the United States expressly for literary translators. A 1999 "New York Times" article called it "the Academy Award of Translation" and that the award
Collected Poems." On October 14, 1994, he received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton. He also received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 1994. In 2003 Wilbur was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2006 he won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 2010 he won the National Translation Award for the translation of "The Theatre of Illusion" by Pierre Corneille. In 2012 Yale University conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters on Wilbur.
Wilbur died on October 14