Richard Sieburth is recognized as a leading translator from both German and French, including the following:

• Georg Buchner's Lenz ( see Wikipedia article: Lenz )
• Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns and Fragments,
• Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary
• Gérard de Nerval’s Selected Writings,
• Henri Michaux’s Emergences/Resurgences & Stroke by Stroke
• Michel Leiris’s Nights as Day, Days as Night
• Gershom Sholem's The Fullness of Time: Poems
• Maurice Scève's "Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie"

Sieburth has also translated the poetry of well known American poets into French, including selections from Michael Palmer's Sun (1988). In addition, he has edited many important volumes including a recent edition of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos and of his "Poems & Translations"

His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His recent translation of Maurice Scève’s Délie was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.