Past Sinclaire Award Winners
| Year | Winner | Language |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Benjamin Cohen | Slovak |
| Laura Ettabbakh | Arabic | |
| Benjamin Hulefeld | Polish | |
| Christiaan James | Hebrew | |
| Catherine Mathes | Greek | |
| Tian Song | Bulgarian | |
| Tenzin Thargay | Vietnamese | |
| Seth Wyngowski | Estonian | |
| Victor Yau | Khmer | |
| Vanessa Zenji | Azerbaijani | |
| 2022 | Virgilio Bisio | Chinese |
| Devon Gan | Farsi | |
| Chanel Grice | Vietnamese | |
| Philmon Haile | Turkmen | |
| Aaron Huang | Vietnamese | |
| Audrey Stevens | Turkish | |
| Elisabeth Stratton | Arabic | |
| Sarah Samantha Yee | Georgian | |
| Yang Zhang Monteiro | Georgian | |
| 2021 | Maria Davydenko | Arabic |
| Lindsay Coffey | Arabic | |
| Kristin Foote | Korean | |
| Sylvia Stankova-Loomis | Hebrew | |
| Jerek Taylor Buss | Albanian | |
| Hiram Rios Hernandez | Burmese | |
| Matthew O’Connor | Korean | |
| Ryan Peterson | Cambodian / Khmer | |
| Benjamin James Turman | Urdu | |
| Colette Clark | Farsi | |
| 2020 | Kara Abramson | Korean |
| Peter Corey | Nepali | |
| Torrey Goad | Greek | |
| Kyle Hartwell | Estonian | |
| Mariya Ilyas | Arabic | |
| Issac Jenkins | Hebrew | |
| Rachel King | Arabic | |
| Caitlin Nettleton | Lithuanian | |
| Melvin Pace | Khmer | |
| Seth Wyngowski | Korean | |
| 2019 | Justin Allen | Vietnamese |
| Sarah Ashby | Arabic | |
| Emily Brandt | Arabic | |
| Susae Elanchenny | Hungarian | |
| Eric Fong | Japanese | |
| Victoria Hill | Bengali | |
| Barbara Mozdzierz | Macedonian | |
| Autumn Patterson | Armenian | |
| April Reino | Georgian | |
| Amb. Kyle Scott | Serbian | |
| 2018 | Shawn C. Bush | Greek |
| Jenny Curatola-Wozniak | Turkish | |
| Jenna Covucci | Mandarin | |
| Peter N. D’Amico | Hungarian | |
| Vivian O. Ekey | Amharic | |
| Joshua Johnson | Hindi | |
| Ethan Lynch | Urdu | |
| Jason Rubin | Mandarin | |
| Nicholas Stokes | Turkish | |
| Vera Zdravkova | Mandarin | |
| 2017 | Geoffrey Anisman | Russian |
| Oscar Avila | Icelandic | |
| Kathryn Barnes | Farsi | |
| Edward Dunn | Estonian | |
| Bryan James Furman | Bengali | |
| Jason Inslee | Cambodian/Khmer | |
| Leo Jilk | Armenian | |
| Janette LeHoux | Dari | |
| Autumn Patterson | Bengali | |
| Pamela Pontius | Vietnamese | |
| Carly Ros | Farsi | |
| 2016 | Gregory D. Aurit | Japanese |
| Brian Corteville | Albanian | |
| Henry (Yu-Hang) Fung | Mongolian | |
| Jacob Glenn | Hindi | |
| Kevin O. Gonzalez | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Christopher Gooch | Nepali | |
| David H. Johnson | Farsi | |
| Mariana Neisuler | Arabic | |
| Jacob Rocca | Japanese | |
| David Wacker | Estonian | |
| James A. Waterman | Georgian | |
| 2015 | Naomi Anisman | Hebrew |
| Laura Burns | Albanian | |
| Michael Coker | Nepali | |
| Patrick Connell | Turkish and Greek | |
| Hannah Eagleton | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Neil Gibson | Japanese | |
| Torrey Goad | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Joely E. Hildebrand | Georgian | |
| Will Stevens | Russian | |
| Keren Yohannes | Arabic | |
| 2014 | Alexander Bellah | Russian |
| John Ceballos-Rivera | Arabic | |
| Rafael Diaz | Greek | |
| Karen Glocer | Arabic | |
| Jonathan Herzog | Lithuanian | |
| Maciej Luczywo | Georgian | |
| Rebecca Owen | Icelandic | |
| Martin Thomen | Turkish | |
| Elizabeth Threlkeld | Pashto | |
| Brian Timm-Brock | Hebrew | |
| 2013 | Miriam R. Asnes | Arabic |
| Sonnet A. Frisbee | Czech | |
| Paul F. Narain | Greek | |
| Jacob M. Rocca | Hebrew | |
| Timothy Shriver | Hungarian | |
| Robert Silberstein | Lithuanian | |
| Alan J. Smith | Russian | |
| Adam T. Stevens | Vietnamese | |
| Matthew Wilson | Bulgarian | |
| Bryan G. Wockley | Persian/Dari/Afghan | |
| 2012 | Anne Casper | Kinyarwanda |
| Vanna Chan | Lithuanian | |
| Rebecca Danis | Pashto | |
| Spencer Fields | Albanian | |
| Christina Le | Greek | |
| Dan McCandless | Dari | |
| Robert Mearkle | Arabic | |
| Nina Murray | Lithuanian | |
| Roshni Nirody | Japanese | |
| Kristen Pisani | Greek | |
| 2011 | Nancy Abella | Dari |
| Eric Collings | Uzbek | |
| Sarah Grow | Persian/Farsi | |
| James Hallock | Mandarin | |
| Rebecca Hunter | Albanian | |
| Theresa Mangione | Vietnamese | |
| E. Jerome Ryan, Jr. | Japanese | |
| David Vincent Salvo | Serbian/Croatian | |
| 2010 | Daniel Heath Bailey | Latvian |
| Eric M. Frater | Vietnamese | |
| Melanie Harris Higgins | Indonesian | |
| Bradley Hurst | Hungarian | |
| Andrew J. Partin | Georgian | |
| Daniel Rakove | Mongolian | |
| Stuart Madgett Smith | Greek | |
| Thomas Venner | Tagalog | |
| Vaida Vidugiris | Greek | |
| 2009 | Joshua Baker | Arabic |
| Laura Brown | Arabic | |
| Zachary Harkenride | Dari | |
| Vincent Traverso | Dari | |
| Meredith Rubin | Icelandic | |
| William M. Coleman | Japanese | |
| Alan Clark | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Scott Hansen | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Denise Shen | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Alfred Boll | Serbian | |
| Adam Hantman | Thai | |
| 2008 | Anthony Baird | Albanian |
| Monica Boduszynski | Vietnamese | |
| Candace Faber | Polish | |
| Sandrine Goffard | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Timothy Kraemer | Korean | |
| Patrick McNeil | Estonian | |
| Dewey Moore | Korean | |
| Rachel Mueller | Vietnamese | |
| Lindsay Rothenberg | Arabic | |
| Brooke Spelman | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Gary Westfall | Tagalog | |
| 2007 | Kelly Adams-Smith | Bulgarian |
| Jean Akers | Khmer | |
| Worth Anderson | Polish | |
| Eric Barboriak | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Carleton Bulkin | Dari | |
| Ethan Chorin | Farsi | |
| Jeffrey Hovenier | Greek | |
| Christine P. Jackson | Tagalog | |
| Carol Kalin | Greek | |
| Victor Karabin | Ukrainian | |
| Edward Kwok Hee Dong | Japanese | |
| Berenice Mariscal | Greek | |
| Robert Mearkle | Hungarian | |
| Rona Rathod | Lithuanian | |
| Drew Schufletowski | Polish | |
| Mark Thornburg | Mandarin Chinese | |
| 2006 | Geoffrey Anisman | Hebrew |
| Susannah R. Cooper | Arabic | |
| Stephen A. Cristina | Albanian | |
| Rebecca Dunham | Lithuanian | |
| Bradley R. Evans | Icelandic | |
| Gregory P. Macris | Greek | |
| Kimberly M. McClure | Dari | |
| Mirembe Nantongo | Arabic | |
| Susan Parker-Burns | Polish | |
| Michael P. Pelletier | Arabic | |
| Andrew J. Schilling | Polish | |
| 2005 | William Davnie | Finnish |
| Bradley R. Evans | Albanian | |
| Jeanne Gallo | Polish | |
| Daniel Gedacht | Polish | |
| Eric A. Johnson | Estonian | |
| Peter Kaufman | Lithuanian | |
| Stephen Mull | Lithuanian | |
| Long Nguyen | Tagalog | |
| Rebecca Owen | Korean | |
| Jessica Patterson | Hebrew | |
| John Senior | Bulgarian | |
| Ningchuan F. Zhu | Albanian | |
| 2004 | Joanne Gilles | Japanese |
| Sarah E. Gordon | Dari | |
| Kimberly D. Harrington | Tagalog | |
| Jason P. Hyland | Azerbaijani | |
| Matthew C. Meadows | Tagalog | |
| David H. Rank | Greek | |
| 2003 | Anthony W. Baird | Georgian |
| Laura Brown | Bosnian | |
| Anne S. Coleman | Tagalog | |
| Frank Collins | Latvian | |
| Cherrie S. Daniels | Hebrew | |
| Henry S. Ensher | Hebrew | |
| Kenneth Fairfax | Polish | |
| Julia Jacoby | Hebrew | |
| Timothy Liston | Lithuanian | |
| Richard Rorvig | Polish | |
| Landon Ray Lee Taylor | Latvian | |
| Thomas K. Yazdgerdi | Greek | |
| 2002 | William Davnie | Lithuanian |
| Mark Draper | Latvian | |
| Jonathan Floss | Lithuanian | |
| Henry Haggard | Korean | |
| Sandra Kaiser | Greek | |
| William Mozdzierz | Polish | |
| Mark A. Pekala | Estonian | |
| Brian Shott | Albanian | |
| John Stepanchuk | Greek | |
| 2000 | Angela Price Aggeler | Hindi |
| Angie Bryan | Urdu | |
| Anne L. Chick | Latvian | |
| Daniel Froats | Hungarian | |
| Karen E. Martin | Latvian | |
| Matthias J. Mitman | Greek | |
| Herro Mustafa | Greek | |
| Nancy J. Nelson | Estonian | |
| Daniel O'Grady | Greek | |
| Thomas J.N. Pierce | Albanian | |
| Kristen L. Pisani | Albanian | |
| Alfred Schandlbauer | Greek | |
| Robert Silberstein | Croatian | |
| 1999 | Peter K. Augustine | Russian |
| David L. Ballard | Arabic | |
| Melissa J. Cooper | Armenian | |
| Stephen A. Cristina | Finnish | |
| Peggy A. Gennatiempo | Greek | |
| Marc Evans Knapper | Korean | |
| Dianne E. Markowitz | Russian | |
| Alexander Meerovich | Russian | |
| Geeta Pasi | Hindi | |
| Daniel H. Rubinstein | Arabic | |
| Alice G. Wells | Urdu | |
| 1997 | Doron D. Bard | Hebrew |
| Paul Brennan Daley | Nepali | |
| David J. Firestein | Chinese |