Established in 1998, the NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include a full evaluation of the source language text.
2015 marked the first year in which two separate National Translation Awards were given, one for poetry and one for prose.
Since 2009 the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is awarded at the same time as the NTA by the ALTA and recognizes the best translation into English of book-length Asian poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism published in the previous calendar year.
It is named for Lucien Stryk, an American Zen poet and translator.
This $5,000 prize will be awarded annually to a translator of a work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction) published in the previous calendar year.