literary prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
for any book-length
translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...
into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in
1999
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. The prize is funded by and named in honour of
Lord Weidenfeld
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, ...
The Queen's College
The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
.
Winners
Source:
Shortlists
2007
* Joel Agee for Friedrich Durrenmatt, Selected Writings (University of Chicago Press)
* Anthea Bell for
Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse (born 11 May 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as ...
, Vienna (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
* Robin Kirkpatrick for
Dante
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...
, Inferno (Penguin)
* Sverre Lyngstad for
Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad (born 16 July 1941) is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He has written nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics ...
, Shyness and Dignity (Harvill Secker)
* Sandra Smith for Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise (Chatto and Windus)
2008
* Richard Dove for
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the lea ...
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.
Biography
Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood wi ...
, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin)
* Mike Mitchell for
Georges Rodenbach
Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.
Biography
Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He was ...
, The Bells of Bruges (Dedalus)
* Natasha Randall for
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin ( rus, Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn; – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fictio ...
, We (Vintage)
* Ina Rilke for
Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans (1 September 1921 – 27 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are ''The House of Refuge'' (novella, ...
, The Darkroom of Damocles (Harvill Secker)
2009
* David Colmer for
Gerbrand Bakker Gerbrand Bakker may refer to:
* Gerbrand Bakker (physician)
Gerbrand Bakker (Enkhuizen, November 1, 1771 – Groningen, June 15, 1828) was an eminent Dutch physician, professor at the University of Groningen.
He first studied medicine with M.S. ...
, The Twin
* Sarah Death for Alexander Ahndoril, The Director
* Christine Donougher for
Sylvie Germain
Sylvie Germain (born 1954 Châteauroux, Indre) is a French author.
Early life and education
During her childhood, with her three brothers and sisters, she moved from city to city, depending on the assignments her sub-prefect father received.
In ...
, Magnus
* Michael Hofmann for
Fred Wander
Fred Wander (5 January 1917 – 10 July 2006) was an Austrian writer and Holocaust survivor.
Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in Vienna, he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe takin ...
, The Seventh Well
* Marek Tomin for Emil Hakl, Of Kids and Parents
2010
* Susan Wicks for Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc)
* Larisa Gureyeva & George Hyde for
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...
, Pro Eto – That’s What (Arc)
* Howard Curtis for
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
, Three Tales (Hesperus Press)
* Lazer Lederhendler for Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski (Portobello Books)
* Sam Garrett for
Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967) is a Dutch writer.Tommy Wieringa
, Joe Speedboat (Portobello Books)
2011
* Anne McLean for
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born in Bogotá on January 1, 1973) is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of stories, tw ...
, The Secret History of Costaguana (Bloomsbury)
* Christopher Middleton for
Jean Follain
Jean Follain (29 August 1903 – 10 March 1971) was a French writer, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group.
, 130 Poems (Anvil Press)
* Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Anna Aslanyan for
Vasily Grossman
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist.
Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then pa ...
, Everything Flows (Harvill Secker)
* Tom Geddes for
Per Wästberg
Per Erik Wästberg (born 20 November 1933) is a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.
Wästberg was born in Stockholm, son of Erik Wästberg and his wife Greta née Hirsch, and holds a degree in literature from Uppsala ...
, The Journey of Anders Sparrman (Granta)
* Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers for
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known to ...
, No Way Back (Angel Books)
2012
* John Ashbery for
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he start ...
, Illuminations (Carcanet)
* Margaret Jull Costa for Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France (Harvill Secker)
* Howard Curtis for Filippo Bologna, How I Lost the War (Pushkin)
* Rosalind Harvey for
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos (born 1973) is a Mexican author.
His debut novel, ''Down the Rabbit Hole'', was published by And Other Stories in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011. He is also the author of ''Quesadillas'' ...
, Down the Rabbit Hole (And Other Stories)
* Martin McLaughlin for
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
, Into the War (Penguin)
2013
* Tess Lewis for
Lukas Bärfuss
Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.
Biography
Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating f ...
, One Hundred Days (Granta)
* Louise B. Popkin for
Mario Benedetti
Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being publi ...
, Witness (White Pine Press)
* Sam Taylor for
Laurent Binet
Laurent Binet (born 19 July 1972) is a French writer and university lecturer. His work focuses on the modern political scene in France.
Biography
The son of a historian,Valérie Trierweiler, October 18, 2010"Laurent Binet, retour sur un succès" ...
, HHhH (Harvill Secker)
* Frank Wynne for
Alonso Cueto
Alonso Cueto Caballero (born 1954 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist.
His writing career has spanned nearly four decades, during which he has produced dozens of works of fiction, articles and essay ...
, The Blue Hour (Heinemann)
* Mike Mitchell for Jean-Pierre Ohl, The Lairds of Cromarty (Dedalus)
2014
* Anthea Bell for Eugen Ruge, In Times of Fading Light (Faber)
* Isabel Fargo Cole for
Franz Fühmann
Franz Fühmann (15 January 1922 – 8 July 1984) was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany. He wrote in a variety of formats, including short stories, essays, screenplays and children's books. Influenced by Nazism in his you ...
, The Jew Car (Seagull Books)
* David Homel for
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.
Life
Bo ...
, The Enigma of the Return (MacLehose Press)
* Peter Daniels for
Vladislav Khodasevich
Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (russian: Владисла́в Фелициа́нович Ходасе́вич; 16 May 1886 – 14 June 1939) was an influential Russian poet and literary critic who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian ...
, Selected Poems (Angel Classics)
* Alastair McEwen for Andrea Bajani, Every Promise (Maclehose Press)
* Edward Gauvin for
Jean Ferry
Jean Levy, known as Jean Ferry (16 June 1906 – 5 September 1974), was a French writer and screenwriter and follower of the ' pataphysical tradition'. He died in Val-de-Marne, France in 1974. He was described by Raphaël Sorin as "...a little man ...
, The Conductor and Other Tales (Wakefield Press)
* Mira Rosenthal for
Tomasz Różycki
Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated a ...
, Colonies (Zephyr Press)
2015
* Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia for Andres Neuman, Talking to Ourselves (Pushkin Press)
* Euan Cameron for Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club (Atlantic Books)
* Will Firth for Aleksandar Gatalica, The Great War (Istros Books)
* Anne Stokes for Sarah Kirsch, Ice Roses (Carcanet Press)
* Geoffrey Strachan for
Jérôme Ferrari
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel '' Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome").
Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at th ...
, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (MacLehose Press)
* Stefan Tobler for
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector ( uk, Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор); December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works ex ...
, Água Viva (Penguin Books)
* Paul Vincent for
Erwin Mortier
Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006).
He wrote as a columnist for newspapers like '' De Morgen'' and ...
, While the Gods were Sleeping (Pushkin Press)
2016
* John Cullen for
Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud ( ar, كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is a French-Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily '' Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Y ...
, The Meursault Investigation (Oneworld)
* Stephen Pearl for
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his ...
, The Same Old Story (Alma Classics)
* Don Bartlett for
Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...
, Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle (Harvill Secker)
* Shaun Whiteside for
Charles Lewinsky
Charles Lewinsky (14 April 1946) is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright (among others '' Fascht e Familie''), as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Zürich, Canto ...
, Melnitz (Atlantic Books)
* Lola M. Rogers for
Sofi Oksanen
Sofi-Elina Oksanen (born 7 January 1977) is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which "Purge" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary work ...
, When the Doves Disappeared (Atlantic Books)
* Lisa C. Hayden for Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus (Oneworld)
2017
* Ben Faccini for
Lydie Salvayre
Lydie Salvayre (born ''Lydie Arjona'' in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.
...
, Cry, Mother Spain (MacLehose)
* Philip Ó Ceallaigh for
Mihail Sebastian
Mihail Sebastian (; born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.
Life
Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mendel and Clara Hechter. After ...
, For Two Thousand Years (Penguin Classics)
* Natasha Wimmer for Álvaro Enrigue, Sudden Death (Harvill Secker)
* Lisa Dillman for Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies (And Other Stories)
* Lisa C. Hayden for Vadim Levental, Masha Regina (Oneworld)
* Rawley Grau for Dušan Šarotar, Panorama (Peter Owen World Series/Istros Books)
* Arthur Goldhammer for Stéphane Heuet’s adaptation of
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel '' In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous ...
, In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way (Gallic)
2018
* Misha Hoekstra for
Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors (born 20 May 1970) is a Danish writer. She is the author of ''Soul'', ''Karate Chop'', '' Mirror, Shoulder, Signal'', and ''Wild Swims''.
Background
Nors was born in Herning, Denmark, the youngest of three children. As a child, she ...
, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Pushkin Press)
* Susan Bernofsky for
Yoko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 ''Tawada Yōko'', born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tan ...
, Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Portobello Books)
* Forrest Gander for
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems (Bloodaxe Books)
* Helen Constantine for
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...
, A Love Story (Oxford University Press)
* Laura Marris for Louis Guilloux, Blood Dark (New York Review Books)
* Michael Lucey for
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule; 30 October 1992) is a French writer.
Biography
Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autob ...
, The End of Eddy (Harvill Secker)
* Celia Hawkesworth for
Daša Drndić
Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Jón Kalman Stefánsson, About the Size of the Universe, translated from the Icelandic (MacLehose)
* Bryan Karetnyk - Gaito Gazdanov, The Beggar and Other Stories, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press)
* Delija Valiukenas - Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, Shadows on the Tundra, translated from the Lithuanian (Peirene)
* Ken Cockburn - Christine Marendon, Heroines from Abroad, translated from the German (Carcanet)
* Nick Caistor -
Mario Benedetti
Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being publi ...
, Springtime in a Broken Mirror, translated from the Spanish (Penguin)
* Rosie Hedger - Gine Cornelia Pedersen, Zero, translated from the Norwegian (Nordisk Books)
* Rachael McGill - Mbarek Ould Beyrouk, The Desert and the Drum, translated from the French (Dedalus)
2020
* Michális Ganás, A Greek Ballad (Yale UP), translated from the Greek by David Connolly and Joshua Barley
* Mahir Guven, Older Brother (Europa), translated from the French by Tina Kover
* Tatyana Tolstaya, Aetherial Worlds (Daunt Books), translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal
*
Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel '' Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the ...
, Max Havelaar (New York Review Books), translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke and David McKay
* Dušan Šarotar, Billiards at the Hotel Dobray (Istros Books), translated from the Slovene by Rawley Grau
* Dina Salústio, The Madwoman of Serrano (Dedalus), translated from the Portuguese by Jethro Soutar
* Birgit Vanderbeke, You Would Have Missed Me (Peirene Press), translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
2021
*
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer.
Early life
Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a soldier that spoke French and a mother that was a peasant. She is the old ...
, The Last Days of Mandelstam, translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Seagull)
*
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (born 20 April 1991 in Nieuwendijk, the Netherlands) is a Dutch writer. Rijneveld won the 2020 International Booker Prize together with his translator Michele Hutchison for the debut novel '' The Discomfort of Evening'' ...
, The Discomfort of Evening, translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison (Faber)
* Ulrike Almut Sandig, I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other, translated from German by Karen Leeder (Seagull)
* Guadalupe Nettel, Bezoar, translated from Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine (Seven Stories Press UK)
* David Diop, At Night All Blood Is Black, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis (Pushkin)
* Esther Kinsky, Grove, translated from German by Caroline Schmidt (Fitzcarraldo)
*
Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira () (October 27, 1892 – March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian ''sert ...
, São Bernardo, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan (NYRB)
2022
* Stuart Bell's translation of Bird Me by Édith Azam – French, the87 press
* Jen Calleja's translation of The Liquid Land by
Raphaela Edelbauer
708 Raphaela is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
Observations performed at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado during 2007 produced a light curve with a period of 20.918 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.45 ± 0.02 ...
– German, Scribe
* Sasha Dugdale's translation of In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova – Russian, Fitzcarraldo
* Daniel Hahn's translation of Occupation by Julian Fuks – Portuguese (Brazil), Charco Press
* Rachael McGill's translation of Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza – French/Sangho (CAR), Dedalus
* Tiago Miller's translation of The Song of Youth by Montserrat Roig – Catalan, Fum D’Estampa Press
* Cristina Sandu's translation of Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu – Finnish, Scribe
Longlist
* Bernard Adams's translation of The Hangman's House by Andrea Tompa - Hungarian, Seagull Books.
* Jack Bevan's translation of the Complete Poems of
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (; August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian poet and translator. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own time ...
- Italian, Carcanet
* Alexandra Büchler's translation of Dream of a Journey by Kateřina Rudčenková – Czech, Parthian
* John Litell's translation of Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren – Swedish, Peirene
* Janet Livingstone's translation of Boat Number Five by Monika Kompaníková – Slovak, Seagull Books
* Julia Sanches's translation of Permafrost by Eva Baltasar – Catalan, And Other Stories
* Damion Searls's translation of A New Name by Jon Fosse – Norwegian, Fitzcarraldo
* Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Night As It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic – French, Faber