Stephen Mitchell has written or translated over twenty books. He has brought into English lucid, beautiful translations of Yehuda Amichai, Homer, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and such foundational texts as the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and Genesis, among others. In honor of his linguistic and poetic acumen, Green Linden Press awards the annual Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize for an unpublished book-length manuscript in any genre translated from any language into English.
