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Scott Moncrieff Prize

The Scott Moncrieff Prize, established in 1965, and named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £3,000 literary prize for French-to-English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". The runner-up receives £1,000. The Prizes is currently sponsored by the Institut Français du Royaume Uni. Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade.

Winners
2020's 2023 • Winner: Frank Wynne for a translation of Standing Heavy by GauZ' (MacLehose Press) • Runners-up: Adriana Hunter for a translation of The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier (Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House) and Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie (Lilliput Press) Shortlisted: • Adriana Hunter for a translation of The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier (Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House) • Teresa Lavender Fagan for a translation of Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury–Ghata (Seagull Books) • Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie (Lilliput Press) • Lucy Raitz for a translation of Swann in Love by Marcel Proust (Pushkin Press) • Shaun Whiteside for a translation of What You Need From The Night by Laurent Petitmangin (Picador, Pan Macmillan) • Frank Wynne for a translation of Standing Heavy by GauZ' (MacLehose Press) 2022 • Winner: Sarah Ardizzone for a translation of Men Don’t Cry by Faïza Guène (Cavassa Republic Press) • Runner Up: Lara Vergnaud for a translation of The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai (Amazon Crossing) Shortlisted: • Chris Andrews for a translation of A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi (Serpent’s Tail) • Frank Wynne for a translation of The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter (Pan Macmillan and Picador) • Sheila Fischman for a translation of Em by Kim Thúy (Seven Stories Press) 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 for a translation of Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné (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 Eel by Ali Zamir (Jacarada Books) • Runner-up: Frank Wynne for a translation of Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Shortlisted: Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of The Archipelago of Another Life by Andreï Makine (MacLehose Press) • Jordan Stump for a translation of The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye (MacLehose Press) • Mark Hutchinson for a translation of The Governesses by Anne Serre (Les Fugitives) • Natasha Lehrer for a translation of Memories of Low Tide by Chantal Thomas (Pushkin Press) 2010's 2019 (presented 2020) • Winner: Linda Coverdale for a translation of The Old Slave and the Mastiff by Patrick Chamoiseau (Dialogue Books) • Runner-up: David Warriner for a translation of We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard (Orenda Books) Shortlisted: • Penny Hueston for a translation of Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq (Text Publishing) • Adriana Hunter for a translation of Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain (Jonathan Cape) • Tina Kover for a translation of Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (Europa Editions) • Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah (MacLehose Press) 2018 (presented 2019) • Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet (New York Review Comics) • Runner-up: Frank Wynne for his translation of Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes (MacLehose Press/Quercus) Shortlistees: • Aneesa Abbas Higgins for her translation of Seven Stones by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Jacaranda Books) • Sophie Lewis 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) 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) • Commended: Antony Melville for his translation of Anicet or the Panorama by Louis Aragon (Atlas Press) 2016 (presented 2017) • Winner: Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon for their translation of Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger (Les Fugitives) • Commended: Sophie Lewis for her translation of Héloïse is Bald by Émilie du Turckheim (Jonathan Cape) 2015 (presented 2016) • Winner: Frank Wynne for his translation of Harraga by Boualem Sansal (Bloomsbury) • Commended: David Bellos for his translation Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec (MacLehose Press) 2014 • Winner: Rachel Galvin for her translation of Hitting the Streets by Raymond Queneau (Carcanet Press) • Commended: Lulu Norman for her translation of Horses of God by Mahi Binebine (Granta) 2013 • Winner: Beverley Bie Brahic for her translation of The Little Auto by Guillaume Apollinaire (CB Editions) • Commended: Euan Cameron for his translation of A Journey to Nowhere - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland by Jean-Paul Kauffman (MacLehose Press) 2012 • Winner: Malcolm Imrie for his translation of Fear by Gabriel Chevallier (Serpent's Tail) • Commended: Giles MacDonogh for his translation of Testicles by Blandine Vié (Prospect Books) 2011 • Winner: Adriana Hunter for Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi (Peirene) • Runners-up: Sarah Ardizzone for her translation of Daniel Pennac’s School Blues (Maclehose Press) and Frank Wynne for his translation of Boualem Sansal’s An Unfinished Business (Bloomsbury) 2010 • Winner: Susan Wicks for Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau (Arc Publications) • Joint runners-up: Linda Coverdale for The Strategy of Antelopes by Jean Hatzfeld (Serpent’s Tail) and Lazer Lederhendler for Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner (Portobello) 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 (Fourth Estate) • Runner up: John Brownjohn for Elizabeth 1st and Mary Stuart by Anka Muhlstein (Haus Books) 2007 • Winner: Sarah Adams for Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guène (Chatto) • Runner up: Geoffrey Strachan for The Woman who Waited by Andrei Makine (Sceptre) 2006 • Winner: Linda Coverdale for A Time for Machetes by Jean Hatzfeld (Serpent’s Tail) • Runner up: Anthea Bell for Love Without Resistance by Gilles Rozier (Little, Brown) 2005 • Winner: John Berger and Lisa Appignanesi for ''The Year is '42'' by Nella Bielski (Bloomsbury) 2004 • Winner: Ian Monk for Monsieur Malaussene by Daniel Pennac (Harvill) 2003 • Winner: Linda Asher for Ignorance by Milan Kundera (Faber and Faber) 2002 • Winner: Ina Rilke for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (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 (Harvill) 1990s 1999 • Winner: Margaret Mauldon for Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans (OUP) 1998 • Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine (Sceptre) 1997 • Winners: Janet Lloyd for The Spears of Twilight by Philippe Descola (Harper Collins) and Christopher Hampton for Art by Yasmina Reza (Faber and Faber) 1996 • Winner: David Coward for Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen (Viking) 1995 • Winner: Gilbert Adair for A Void by Georges Perec (Harvill) 1994 No Award 1993 • Winner: Christine Donougher for The Book of Nights by Sylvie Germain (Dedalus) 1992 • Winners: Barbara Wright for The Midnight Love Feast by Michel Tournier (Collins) and James Kirkup for Painted Shadows by Jean Baptiste-Niel (Quartet) 1991 • Winner: Brian Pearce for Bread and Circuses by Paul Veyne (Penguin) 1990 • Winner: Beryl and John Fletcher for The Georgics by Claude Simon (Calder) 1980s 1989 • Winner: Derek Mahon for Selected Poems by Philippe Jaccotet (Viking Penguin) 1988 • Winner: Robyn Marsack for The Scorpion-Fish by Nicolas Bouvier (Carcanet) 1987 • Winner: Barbara Wright for Grabinoulor by Pierre Albert-Birot (Atlas) 1986 • Winners: Barbara Bray for The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Collins) and Richard Nice for Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu (Routledge) 1985 • Winner: Quintin Hoare for War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War by Jean-Paul Sartre (Verso) • Runner up: Barbara Wright for Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute (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 (Collins) 1982 • Winner: Anne Carter for Gemini by Michel Tournier (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 (University of Chicago Press) 1970s 1979 • Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for The Origin of Table Manners by Claude Levi-Strauss (Jonathan Cape) and Richard Mayne for Memoirs (Collins) 1978 • Winner: Janet Lloyd for The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne (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 Michel Tournier (Collins) 1972 • Winner: Paul Stevenson for Germany in our Time by Alfred Grosser (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 Nathalie Sarraute (Calder & Boyars) • Runner-up: Jean Stewart for Maltaverne by Francois Mauriac (Eyre & Spottiswoode) and The Taking of the Bastille by Jacques Godechot (Faber and Faber) 1970 • Winner: W.G. Corp for The Spaniard by Bernard Clavel (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 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) • Special Award: Anthony Rudolf for Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy (Jonathan Cape) 1968 • Winner: Jean Stewart for French North Africa by Jacques Berque (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 (Collins) 1965 • Winner: Edward Hyams for Joan of Arc (Regino Iornoud Macdonald) • Runner-up: Humphrey Hare for Memoirs of Zeus by Maurice Druon (Hart-Davis) ==References==
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