The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000

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for French to English

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, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". Only translations first published in the

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are considered for the accolade. Sponsors of the prize include the

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, the

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, and the

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Winners

2020's

2021 * Winner: Sam Taylor for a translation of ''The Invisible Land'' by Hubert Mingarelli (Granta) * Runner up: Emily Boyce for a translation of ''A Long Way Off'' by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) Shortlisted: * Helen Stevenson for a translation of ''The Death of Comrade President'' by Alain Mabanckou (Profile Books: Serpent’s Tail) *

Roland Glasser Roland Glasser (born 1973), is a literary translator, working from French into English. Awards and honours * His translation of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s ''Tram 83'' won the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature and was longlisted for the 2016 Man ...

for a translation of ''Real Life'' by

Adeline Dieudonné Adeline Dieudonné is a Belgians, Belgian writer. She is best known for her debut novel ''Real Life'' (2018), which won numerous literary prizes in the Francophone world, among them: * Prix du Roman FNAC * Prix Rossel * Prix Renaudot des lycéens ...

(World Editions) * Laura Marris for a translation of ''Those Who Forget'' by Géraldine Schwarz (Pushkin Press) * Aneesa Abbas Higgins for a translation of ''Winter in Sokcho'' by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Daunt Books Publishing) 2020 (presented 2021) * Winner: Aneesa Abbas Higgins for a translation of ''A Girl Called Ee''l by Ali Zamir ( Jacarada Books) * Runner-up:

Frank Wynne Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine '' Deadline''. He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a ...

for a translation of ''Animalia'' by

Jean-Baptiste del Amo Jean-Baptiste Garcia (born 25 November 1981), known by the pen name Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, is a French writer. He was born in Toulouse. Selected works * ''Ne rien faire et autres nouvelles'' (2006). * ''Une éducation libertine'' (2008). ''A Libe ...

(

Fitzcarraldo Editions Fitzcarraldo Editions is an independent book publisher based in London, specialising in literary fiction and long-form essays. History Founded in 2014 by Jacques Testard, it focuses on ambitious, imaginative, and innovative writing, both in ...

) Shortlisted:

Geoffrey Strachan Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English. He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andreï Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza, Nathacha ...

for a translation of ''The Archipelago of Another Life'' by

Andreï Makine Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine (russian: Андрей Серге́евич Макин; born 10 September 1957) is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde.MacLehose Press Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Smith and Wayne Davies. Quercus is known for its lists in crime (publishing such authors as El ...

) * Jordan Stump for a translation of ''The Cheffe'' by

Marie NDiaye Marie NDiaye (born 4 June 1967) is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, ''Quant au riche avenir'', when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009. Her play ''Papa doit manger'' is the sole play by a ...

(

MacLehose Press Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Smith and Wayne Davies. Quercus is known for its lists in crime (publishing such authors as El ...

) * Mark Hutchinson for a translation of ''The Governesses'' by Anne Serre (Les Fugitives) *

Natasha Lehrer Natasha Lehrer is a writer and literary translator. She was born in London and studied at Oxford University and the Université de Paris VIII. Her translations have received multiple awards, and been longlisted and shortlisted for several prizes. ...

for a translation of ''Memories of Low Tide'' by Chantal Thomas ( Pushkin Press)

2010's

2019 (presented 2020) * Winner:

Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, ...

for a translation of ''The Old Slave and the Mastiff'' by

Patrick Chamoiseau Patrick Chamoiseau (born 3 December 1953) is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement. His work spans a variety of forms and genres, including novels, essays, children's books, screenplays, theatre and comics. ...

(Dialogue Books) *Runner-up: David Warriner for a translation of ''We Were the Salt of the Sea'' by Roxanne Bouchard (

Orenda Books Orenda Books is a British-based publishing house that publishes literary and crime fiction. The London-based publisher was established in 2014 and publishes debut and existing authors including Ragnar Jónasson, Thomas Enger, Michael Grothaus, Gun ...

) Shortlisted: * Penny Hueston for a translation of ''Our Life in the Forest'' by

Marie Darrieussecq Marie Darrieussecq (born 3 January 1969, Bayonne) is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. Her books explore the unspoken and abandoned territories in literature. Her work is dense, marked by a constant ...

(

Text Publishing Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng ...

) *

Adriana Hunter Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She is known for translating over 60 French novels, such as '' Fear and Trembling'' by Amélie Nothomb or '' The Girl Who Played Go'' by Shan Sa. She has been short-listed for the Ind ...

for a translation of ''Woman at Sea'' by

Catherine Poulain Catherine Poulain (born 1960) is a French writer. Life Born in Barr (Bas-Rhin), Barr, Poulain left France at the age of twenty and travelled on various continents. She arrived in Quebec in 1987, then settled in Alaska where she worked as a fis ...

( Jonathan Cape) *

Tina Kover Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975 in Denver, Colorado, USA) is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Repu ...

for a translation of ''Disoriental'' by

Négar Djavadi Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an Iranian- French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel '' Disoriental (Désorientale)''.Dalia Sofer"A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile" ''The New ...

(

Europa Editions Europa Editions is an independent trade publisher based in New York. The company was founded in 2005 by the owners of the Italian press Edizioni E/O and specializes in literary fiction, mysteries, and narrative non-fiction. Europa has published ...

) *

for a translation of '' Tropic of Violence'' by Nathacha Appanah (

) 2018 (presented 2019) *Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of ''Pretending is Lying'' by Dominique Goblet (

New York Review Comics New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing division of ''The New York Review of Books''. Its imprints are New York Review Books Classics, New York Review Books Collections, The New York Review Children's Collection, New York Review Comics, N ...

) * Runner-up:

for his translation of ''Vernon Subutex 1'' by

Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory of ...

( MacLehose Press/Quercus) Shortlistees: * Aneesa Abbas Higgins for her translation of ''Seven Stones'' by

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 ...

(

Jacaranda Books Jacaranda Books is a diversity-led British independent book publishing firm launched in 2012 and known for their effort tackling the gap between white authors and the BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) demographic in United Kingdom's p ...

) *

Sophie Lewis Sophie Lewis (born 2002) is a British and English track cyclist. Cycling career Lewis became a British champion when winning the Omnium event at the 2022 British National Track Championships. In addition she won a silver medal in the madison e ...

for her translation of ''Blue Self-Portrait'' by Noémi Lefebvre ( Les Fugitives) * Helen Stevenson for her translation of ''Black Moses by'' Alain Mabanckou (

Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distributed in the UK ...

) 2017 (presented 2018) * Winner: Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn for their translation of ''The 120 Days of Sodom'' by the Marquis de Sade (

Penguin Classics Penguin Classics is an imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean among other languages. Literary critics see books in this series as important members of the West ...

) * Commended: Antony Melville for his translation of ''Anicet or the Panorama'' by

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He ...

(

Atlas Press Atlas Press began publishing in 1983, and specialises in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day. It is the largest publisher in English of books on Surrealism and has an extensive list relating to Dada, Surreal ...

) 2016 (presented 2017) * Winner:

and Cécile Menon for their translation of ''Suite for Barbara Loden'' by

Nathalie Léger Nathalie Léger (born 20 September 1960 in Paris, France) is a writer and the executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives. Career Nathalie Léger was curator of several exhibitions, notably ''Le Jeu et la Raison'', ...

( Les Fugitives) * Commended:

for her translation of ''Héloïse is Bald'' by Émilie du Turckheim ( Jonathan Cape) 2015 (presented 2016) * Winner:

for his translation of ''Harraga'' by

Boualem Sansal Boualem Sansal ( ar, بوعلام صنصال; born 15 October 1949) is an Algerian author. In 2012, he was named winner of the Prix du roman arabe, but the prize money was withdrawn due to Sansal's visit to Israel to speak at the Jerusalem Writ ...

( Bloomsbury) * Commended:

David Bellos David Bellos (born 1945) is an English-born translator and biographer. Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University in the United States. He was director of Princeton ...

for his translation ''Portrait of a Man'' by

Georges Perec Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Hol ...

(

) 2014 * Winner: Rachel Galvin for her translation of ''Hitting the Streets'' by

Raymond Queneau Raymond Queneau (; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo ('' Ouvroir de littérature potentielle''), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Biography Queneau w ...

( Carcanet Press) * Commended:

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for her translation of ''Horses of God'' by Mahi Binebine (

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

) 2013 * Winner:

Beverley Bie Brahic Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry collection, ''White Sheets'', was a finalist for the Forward Prizand a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her translations ...

for her translation of ''The Little Auto'' by

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of t ...

( CB Editions) * Commended:

Euan Cameron Euan Cameron is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the Reformation and religion in the Late Middle Ages The Late Middle Ages ...

for his translation of ''A Journey to Nowhere - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland'' by Jean-Paul Kauffman (

) 2012 * Winner:

Malcolm Imrie Malcolm, Malcom, Máel Coluim, or Maol Choluim may refer to: People * Malcolm (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters * Clan Malcolm * Maol Choluim de Innerpeffray, 14th-century bishop-elect of Dunkeld Nobility * Máe ...

for his translation of ''Fear'' by

Gabriel Chevallier Gabriel Chevallier (3 May 1895 – 6 April 1969) was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire ''Clochemerle''. Biography Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des Be ...

(

Serpent's Tail Serpent's Tail is London-based independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It specialises in publishing work in translation, particularly European crime fiction. In January 2007, it was bought by a British publisher Profile Book ...

) * Commended:

Giles MacDonogh Giles MacDonogh (born 1955) is a British writer, historian and translator. Life MacDonogh has worked as a journalist, most notably for the ''Financial Times'' (1988–2003), where he covered food, drink and a variety of ...

for his translation of ''Testicles'' by Blandine Vié (

Prospect Books Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent publishing company located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the humanities and social sciences. The company was formed in 1975. When Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kil ...

) 2011 * Winner:

for ''Beside the Sea'' by

Véronique Olmi Véronique Olmi (born 1962) is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella '' Bord de Mer''. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a doze ...

(Peirene) * Runners-up: Sarah Ardizzone for her translation of

Daniel Pennac Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay '' Chagrin d'école''. Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Cors ...

’s ''School Blues'' (

Maclehose Press Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Smith and Wayne Davies. Quercus is known for its lists in crime (publishing such authors as El ...

) and Frank Wynne for his translation of

’s ''An Unfinished Business'' ( Bloomsbury) 2010 * Winner:

Susan Wicks Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist. She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent. She teaches at Goldsm ...

for ''Cold Spring in Winter'' by

Valérie Rouzeau Valérie Rouzeau (born 22 August 1967, in Cosne-sur-Loire), is a French poet and translator. She is the eldest of a family of seven children. She holds a Master of literary translation. She received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for Poetry in 2 ...

(

Arc Publications Arc Publications, also known as Arc, is an independent publishing house in the UK, publishing contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the ...

) * Joint runners-up:

for ''The Strategy of Antelopes'' by

Jean Hatzfeld Jean Hatzfeld is a French author and journalist who wrote extensively about the Bosnian War and the Rwandan Genocide in Rwanda. Biography Youth Born in Madagascar, Hatzfeld was the fourth child in the family of Olivier and Maud Hatzfeld. H ...

(Serpent’s Tail) and

Lazer Lederhendler Lazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic."A literary translator's colourful, unlikely tale". ''Montreal Gazette'', December 17, 2016. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, ...

for ''Nikolski'' by Nicolas Dickner (

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)

2000s

2009 * Winner: Polly McLean for ''Gross Margin'' by Laurent Quintreau (Harvill Secker) * Runner up: Barbara Mellor for ''Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France'' by Agnes Humbert (Bloomsbury) 2008 * Winner: Frank Wynne for ''Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years'' by

Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel ''Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book ''Un roman françai ...

(Fourth Estate) * Runner up: John Brownjohn for ''Elizabeth 1st and Mary Stuart'' by

Anka Muhlstein Anka Muhlstein (born 1935) is a historian and biographer. Early life Muhlstein was born to Anatol Mühlstein and Diane de Rothschild in Paris in 1935. During World War II, she stayed in New York City before returning to France in 1945. She was ma ...

(Haus Books) 2007 * Winner: Sarah Adams for ''Just Like Tomorrow'' by

Faïza Guène Faïza Guène (born 7 June 1985) is a French writer and director, best known for her two novels, ''Kiffe kiffe demain'' and ''Du rêve pour les oufs''. She has also directed several short films, including ''Rien que des mots'' (2004). Biography ...

(Chatto) * Runner up: Geoffrey Strachan for ''The Woman who Waited'' by

Andrei Makine Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй , Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/ Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman *An ...

(Sceptre) 2006 * Winner: Linda Coverdale for ''A Time for Machetes'' by

( Serpent’s Tail) * Runner up: Anthea Bell for ''Love Without Resistance'' by Gilles Rozier (

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown (publisher), James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Ear ...

) 2005 * Winner:

John Berger John Peter Berger (; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel '' G.'' won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism '' Ways of Seeing'', written as an accompaniment to the ...

and

Lisa Appignanesi Lisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of English PEN ...

for ''The Year is '42'' by

Nella Bielski Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress. Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied philosophy at Moscow Stat ...

( Bloomsbury) 2004 * Winner: Ian Monk for ''Monsieur Malaussene'' by

(Harvill) 2003 * Winner: Linda Asher for ''Ignorance'' by

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himself ...

(Faber and Faber) 2002 * Winner: Ina Rilke for ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'' by

Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University ...

(Chatto & Windus) 2001 * Winner: Barbara Bray for ''On Identity'' by Amin Maalouf (Harvill) 2000 * Winner: Patricia Clancy for ''The Dark Room at Longwood'' by

Jean-Paul Kauffmann Jean-Paul Kauffmann (8 August 1944, Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Mayenne) is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (40th class). Biography His great-grandfather Michel Kauffmann left Alsac ...

(Harvill)

1990s

1999 * Winner: Margaret Mauldon for ''Against Nature'' by

Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel '' À rebour ...

(OUP) 1998 * Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for ''Le Testament Francais'' by

Andreï Makine Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine (russian: Андрей Серге́евич Макин; born 10 September 1957) is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde.Philippe Descola Philippe Descola, FBA (born 19 June 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory. Background Descola started with an interest in philoso ...

(Harper Collins) and Christopher Hampton for ''Art'' by

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...

(Faber and Faber) 1996 * Winner: David Coward for ''

Belle du Seigneur ''Belle du Seigneur'' is a 1968 novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen. Set in Geneva in the 1930s, the narrative revolves around a Mediterranean Jew employed by the League of Nations, and his romance with a married Swiss aristocrat. The novel is ...

'' by Albert Cohen (Viking) 1995 * Winner: Gilbert Adair for ''A Void'' by

(Harvill) 1994 No Award 1993 * Winner: Christine Donougher for ''The Book of Nights'' by

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 ...

(Dedalus) 1992 * Winners: Barbara Wright for ''The Midnight Love Feast'' by

Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the ''Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française'' in 1967 for '' Friday, or, The Other Island'' and the Prix Goncourt for '' The Erl-King'' i ...

(Collins) and James Kirkup for ''Painted Shadows'' by Jean Baptiste-Niel (Quartet) 1991 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''Bread and Circuses'' by

Paul Veyne Paul Veyne (; 13 June 1930 – 29 September 2022) was a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist of Ancient Rome. A student of the École Normale Supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he was honorary professor at th ...

(Penguin) 1990 * Winner: Beryl and John Fletcher for ''The Georgics'' by

Claude Simon Claude Simon (; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist, and was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. Biography Claude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar. His parents were French, his father being a ...

(Calder)

1980s

1989 * Winner: Derek Mahon for ''Selected Poems'' by

Philippe Jaccotet Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count ...

(Viking Penguin) 1988 * Winner: Robyn Marsack for ''The Scorpion-Fish'' by

Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier (6 March 1929 in Lancy – 17 February 1998) was a 20th-century Swiss traveller, writer, picture editor and photographer. He studied in Geneva in the 1950s and lived there later between his travels. Life Bouvier was born at Gra ...

(

Carcanet Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was named the '' Sunday Times'' millennium Small Publisher of the Year. History ''Carcanet'' was originally a li ...

) 1987 * Winner: Barbara Wright for ''Grabinoulor'' by

Pierre Albert-Birot Pierre Albert-Birot (22 April 1876 – 25 July 1967) was a French avant-garde poet, dramatist, and theater manager. He was a steadfast avant-garde during World War I, through the magazine ''Sic'' he created and published from 1916 to 1919. He wa ...

(Atlas) 1986 * Winners:

Barbara Bray Barbara Bray (née Jacobs; 24 November 1924 – 25 February 2010) was an English translator and critic. Early life Bray was born in Maida Vale, London; her parents had Belgian and Jewish origins. An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe was al ...

for ''The Lover'' by

Marguerite Duras Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film '' Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) e ...

(Collins) and Richard Nice for ''Distinction'' by

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

(

Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law ...

) 1985 * Winner:

Quintin Hoare Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian.

for ''War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War'' by

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...

(

Verso ' is the "right" or "front" side and ''verso'' is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper () in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. Etymology The terms are shortened from Latin ...

) * Runner up: Barbara Wright for ''Childhood'' by

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak ( rus, Ната́лья Ильи́нична Черня́к); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. Personal life Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), 300&n ...

( Calder) 1984 * Winner: Roy Harris for ''Course in General Linguistics'' by F. de Saussure (Duckworth) 1983 * Winner: Sian Reynolds for ''The Wheels of Commerce'' by

Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...

(Collins) 1982 * Winner: Anne Carter for ''Gemini'' by

(Collins) 1981 * Winner: Paul Falla for ''The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome'' by C. Nicolet (Batsford) 1980 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789'' by

Roland Mousnier Roland Émile Mousnier (; Paris, September 7, 1907– February 8, 1993, Paris) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. Life Mousnier was born in Paris and receiv ...

(University of Chicago Press)

1970s

1979 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''The Origin of Table Manners'' by

Claude Levi-Strauss Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

(Jonathan Cape) and Richard Mayne for ''Memoirs'' (Collins) 1978 * Winner: Janet Lloyd for ''The Gardens of Adonis'' by

Marcel Detienne Marcel Detienne (October 11, 1935 in Liège, Belgium – March 21, 2019 in Nemours, France) was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L. Gildersl ...

(Harvester Press) and David Hapgood for ''The Totalitarian Temptation'' by Jean-Francois Revel (Secker & Warburg) 1977 * Winner: Peter Wait for ''French Society 1789-1970'' by George Dupeux (Methuen) 1976 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''Leninism under Lenin'' by Marcel Liebman (Jonathan Cape) and Douglas Parmee for ''The Second World War'' by Henri Michel (Andre Deutsch) 1975 * Winners: D. McN. Lockie for ''France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu'' by Victor-L Tapie (Macmillan) and Joanna Kilmartin for ''Scars on the Soul'' by Francoise Sagan (Andre Deutsch) 1974 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''From Honey to Ashes'' by Claude Levi-Strauss (Collins) and ''Tristes Tropiques'' by Claude Levi-Strauss (Jonathan Cape) 1973 * Winner: Barbara Bray for ''The Erl King'' by

(Collins) 1972 * Winner: Paul Stevenson for ''Germany in our Time'' by

Alfred Grosser Alfred Grosser (born 1 February 1925 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist. He is known for his contributions towards the Franco-German cooperation after World War II and for criticizing Israel. Ea ...

(Pall Mall Press) * Special Awards: Joanna Kilmartin for ''Sunlight on Cold Water'' by Francois Sagan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), and Elizabeth Walter for ''A Scent of Lilies'' by Claire Gallois (Collins) 1971 * Winner: Maria Jolas for ''Between Life and Death'' by

(Calder & Boyars) * Runner-up: Jean Stewart for ''Maltaverne'' by Francois Mauriac (Eyre & Spottiswoode) and ''The Taking of the Bastille'' by

Jacques Godechot Jacques Léon Godechot (3 January 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a French historian of the French revolution, and a pioneer of Atlantic history. As a frequent and varied contributor to the ''Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française'', he act ...

(Faber and Faber) 1970 * Winner: W.G. Corp for ''The Spaniard'' by

Bernard Clavel Bernard Charles Henri Clavel (29 May 1923 – 5 October 2010) was a French writer. Clavel was born in Lons-le-Saunier. From a humble background, he was largely self-educated. He began working as a pastry cook apprentice when he was 14 years ol ...

(Harrap) * Richard Barry for ''The Suez Expedition 1956'' by Andre Beaufre (Faber) * Elaine P. Halperin for ''The Other Side of the Mountain'' by Michel Bernanos (Gollancz)

1960s

1969 * Winner: Terence Kilmartin for ''Anti-memoirs'' by Andre Malraux (Hamish Hamilton) and ''The Girls'' by

Henry de Montherlant Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Biography Born in Paris, a descendant ...

(Weidenfeld & Nicolson) * Special Award: Anthony Rudolf for ''Selected Poems'' by

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was pr ...

(Jonathan Cape) 1968 * Winner: Jean Stewart for ''French North Africa'' by

Jacques Berque Jacques Augustin Berque (4 June 1910, Molière, Algeria – 27 June 1995) was a French scholar of Islam and sociologist of the Collège de France. His expertise was the decolonisation of Algeria and Morocco. Berque wrote several histories on th ...

(Faber) 1967 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''Jean Jacques Rousseau'' by Jean Guehenno (Routledge & Kegan Paul) 1966 * Winners: Barbara Bray for ''From Tristram to Yorick'' by Henri Fluchero (OUP) and Peter Wiles for ''A Young Trouti'' by

Roger Vailland Roger Vailland (16 October 1907 – 12 May 1965) was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Biography Vailland was born in Acy-en-Multien, Oise. His novels include the prize winning ''Drôle de jeu'' (1945), ''Les mauvais coups'' (1948) ...

(Collins) 1965 * Winner: Edward Hyams for ''Joan of Arc'' (Regino Iornoud Macdonald) * Runner-up: Humphrey Hare for ''Memoirs of Zeus'' by

Maurice Druon Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Life and career Born in Paris, France, Druon was the s ...

(Hart-Davis)

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-past-winners, title=Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation Translation awards Society of Authors awards Awards established in 1965 1965 establishments in the United Kingdom