Literature Fellowships
Below is a list of all NEA Literature Fellowships awarded since 1965. You can search by year, name, or fellowship type (creative writing or translation).
We also have sections where you can find out more information about some of the fellows. You can meet some of the fellows who received creative writing awards from 2001 to the present. You can meet some of the fellows who received translation awards from 2011 to the present.
| Name | Year | Type Sort ascending | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne Jill Levine | 1981 | Translation | Spanish |
| Patrick Barron | 2006 | Translation | Italian |
| Lola Rogers | 2019 | Translation | Finnish |
| Andrew Shields | 2005 | Translation | French |
| Brenda Werth | 2018 | Translation | Spanish |
| Paula Bohince | 2022 | Translation | Italian |
| Brian Thomas Oles | 1998 | Translation | Russian |
| Rachel Galvin | 2021 | Translation | Spanish |
| Peter Theroux | 1991 | Translation | Arabic |
| Alexis Levitin | 2003 | Translation | Portuguese |
| Ross Benjamin | 2012 | Translation | German |
| David Frye | 2002 | Translation | Spanish |
| Elizabeth S. Novickas | 2011 | Translation | Lithuanian |
| Gwendolyn Harper | 2020 | Translation | Spanish |
| Mona Mikhail | 1981 | Translation | Arabic |
| Rhonda Buchanan | 2006 | Translation | Spanish |
| Lynn E. Palermo | 2019 | Translation | French |
| Adam Sorkin | 2005 | Translation | Romanian |
| William Scott Wilson | 2018 | Translation | Japanese |
| Jeanne Bonner | 2022 | Translation | Italian |