The Pushkin Poetry Prize, which is funded by a 1958 bequest of Dr. John Paul Mihaly, is awarded for the best translation of a Russian poem into English. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible. You may submit one or two short poems or one extended poem. (Collaborative translations are allowed if both translators are Columbia students.)
The amount of the award is $250. A panel of two judges will review the translations, and the winner will be announced at the end of the academic year.
2024
Winner: Myles Garbarini, "I learned to simply, wisely live"
2023
Winner: Veniamin Gushchin, "Leti!"
2022
Winner: Jiashi Yang, "I Sit by the Window"
2021
Winner: Elaine Wilson, "In Palanga"
Honorable Mention: Jiashi Yang, "I should live" (“Я должен жить”)
2020
Winner: Stephen Bruce, Veltman
Honorable Mention: Jiashi Yang, "Akhmatova/Blok"
2019
Winner: Elaine Wilson, "The Regular"
2018
Winner: Marlow Davis, "The Jew"
2017
Winner: Malina Gulino, "Five Tanka"
2016
Winner: Veniamin Gushchin, "Good Will to Horses"
2015
Winner: Dominic Leach, "Nad sakvoyazhem..."
Honorable Mention: Veniamin Gushchin, "Oblaka v shtanakh"
