Awards and Honors
The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation, and past honorees include Gregory Rabassa, Richard Howard, William Weaver, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fagles, Edmund Keeley, and Donald Keene. He also received the PEN Translation Prize in 1964.
Manheim's 1961 translation of Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) was elected to fourth place among outstanding translations of the last half century by the Translators Association of the Society of Authors on the occasion of their 50th anniversary 2008.
He received the 1970 National Book Award in category Translation for the first U.S. edition of Céline's Castle to Castle.
He was awarded a 1983 MacArthur Fellowship in Literary Studies.
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