Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
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Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize | |
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Awarded for | A book-length translation into English from any other living European language |
Sponsored by | Lord Weidenfeldand Oxford University |
Country | England |
Hosted by | St Anne's College, Oxford |
First awarded | 1999 |
Last awarded | Active |
Website | http:// queens.ox.ac.uk/oxford-weidenfeld-prize |
TheOxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prizeis an annualliterary prizefor any book-lengthtranslationinto English from any other livingEuropean language.[1]The first prize was awarded in1999.[2]The prize is funded by and named in honour ofLord Weidenfeldand byNew College,The Queen's CollegeandSt Anne's College,Oxford.[1]
Winners[edit]
Source:[3]
Year | Translator | Source work | Publisher | ||
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Author | Title | Language | |||
1999 | Jonathan Galassi | Eugenio Montale | Collected Poems | Italian | Carcanet Press |
2000 | Margaret Jull Costa | José Saramago | All the Names | Portuguese | Harvill Press |
2001 | Edwin Morgan | Jean Racine | Phèdre | French | Carcanet Press |
2002 | Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen | Miklós Bánffy | They Were Divided | Hungarian | Arcadia Books |
2003 | Ciaran Carson | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Italian | Granta |
2004 | Michael Hofmann | Ernst Jünger | Storm of Steel | German | Penguin |
2005 | Denis Jackson | Theodor Storm | Paul the Puppeteer | German | Angel Books |
2006 | Len Rix | Magda Szabó | The Door | Hungarian | Harvill Secker |
2007 | Michael Hofmann(2) | Durs Grünbein | Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems | German | Faber |
2008 | Margaret Jull Costa(2) | José Maria de Eça de Queirós | The Maias | Portuguese | Dedalus |
2009 | Anthea Bell | Saša Stanišić | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone | German | |
2010 | Jamie McKendrick | Valerio Magrelli | The Embrace: Selected Poems | Italian | Faber and Faber |
2011 | Margaret Jull Costa(3) | José Saramago | The Elephant's Journey | Portuguese | Harvill Secker |
2012 | Judith Landry | Diego Marani | New Finnish Grammar | Italian | |
2013 | Philip Boehm | Herta Müller | The Hunger Angel | German | Portobello |
2014 | Susan Wicks | Valérie Rouzeau | Talking Vrouz | French | |
2015 | Susan Bernofsky | Jenny Erpenbeck | The End of Days | German | |
2016 (s) | Paul Vincent and John Irons | Various | 100 Dutch-Language Poems | Dutch | Holland Park Press |
2016 (s) | Philip Roughton | Jón Kalman Stefánsson | The Heart of Man | Icelandic | MacLehose Press |
2017 | Frank Perry | Lina Wolff | Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs | Swedish | And Other Stories |
2018 | Lisa Dillman | Andrés Barba | Such Small Hands | Spanish | Portobello Books |
2019 | Celia Hawkesworth | Ivo Andrić | Omer Pasha Latas | Serbo-Croatian | New York Review of Books |
2020[4] | David Hackston | Pajtim Statovci | Crossing | Finnish | Pushkin Press |
2021 | Nichola Smalley | Andrzej Tichý | Wretchedness | Swedish | And Other Stories |
2022 | Nancy Naomi Carlson | Khal Torabully | Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude | Mauritian French | Seagull Books |
2023 | Monica Cure | Liliana Corobca | The Censor's Notebook | Romanian | Seven Stories Press UK |
2024 | Mark Polizzotti | Scholastique Mukasonga | Kibogo | Rwandan French | Daunt Books |
Shortlists[edit]
2007[edit]
- Joel Agee forFriedrich Durrenmatt,Selected Writings(University of Chicago Press)
- Anthea Bell forEva Menasse,Vienna(Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
- Robin Kirkpatrick forDante,Inferno(Penguin)
- Sverre Lyngstad forDag Solstad,Shyness and Dignity(Harvill Secker)
- Sandra Smith forIrène Némirovsky,Suite française(Chatto and Windus)
2008[edit]
- Richard Dove forFriederike Mayröcker,Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006(Carcanet)
- Jamie McKendrick forGiorgio Bassani,The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(Penguin)
- Mike Mitchell forGeorges Rodenbach,The Bells of Bruges(Dedalus)
- Natasha Randall forYevgeny Zamyatin,We(Vintage)
- Ina Rilke forWillem Frederik Hermans,The Darkroom of Damocles(Harvill Secker)
2009[edit]
- David Colmer forGerbrand Bakker,The Twin
- Sarah Death forAlexander Ahndoril,The Director
- Christine Donougher forSylvie Germain,Magnus
- Michael Hofmann forFred Wander,The Seventh Well
- Marek Tomin forEmil Hakl,Of Kids and Parents
2010[edit]
- Susan Wicks forValérie Rouzeau,Cold Spring in Winter(Arc)
- Larisa Gureyeva & George Hyde forVladimir Mayakovsky,Pro Eto – That’s What(Arc)
- Howard Curtis forGustave Flaubert,Three Tales(Hesperus Press)
- Lazer Lederhendler forNicolas Dickner,Nikolski(Portobello Books)
- Sam Garrett forTommy Wieringa,Joe Speedboat(Portobello Books)
2011[edit]
- Anne McLean forJuan Gabriel Vásquez,The Secret History of Costaguana(Bloomsbury)
- Christopher Middleton forJean Follain,130 Poems(Anvil Press)
- Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Anna Aslanyan forVasily Grossman,Everything Flows(Harvill Secker)
- Tom Geddes forPer Wästberg,The Journey of Anders Sparrman(Granta)
- Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers forTheodor Fontane,No Way Back(Angel Books)
2012[edit]
- John Ashbery forArthur Rimbaud,Illuminations(Carcanet)
- Margaret Jull Costa forBernardo Atxaga,Seven Houses in France(Harvill Secker)
- Howard Curtis forFilippo Bologna,How I Lost the War(Pushkin)
- Rosalind Harvey forJuan Pablo Villalobos,Down the Rabbit Hole(And Other Stories)
- Martin McLaughlin forItalo Calvino,Into the War(Penguin)
2013[edit]
- Tess Lewis forLukas Bärfuss,One Hundred Days(Granta)
- Louise B. Popkin forMario Benedetti,Witness(White Pine Press)
- Sam Taylor forLaurent Binet,HHhH(Harvill Secker)
- Frank Wynne forAlonso Cueto,The Blue Hour(Heinemann)
- Mike Mitchell forJean-Pierre Ohl,The Lairds of Cromarty(Dedalus)
2014[edit]
- Anthea Bell forEugen Ruge,In Times of Fading Light(Faber)
- Isabel Fargo Cole forFranz Fühmann,The Jew Car(Seagull Books)
- David Homel forDany Laferrière,The Enigma of the Return(MacLehose Press)
- Peter Daniels forVladislav Khodasevich,Selected Poems(Angel Classics)
- Alastair McEwen forAndrea Bajani,Every Promise(Maclehose Press)
- Edward Gauvin forJean Ferry,The Conductor and Other Tales(Wakefield Press)
- Mira Rosenthal forTomasz Różycki,Colonies(Zephyr Press)
2015[edit]
- Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia forAndrés Neuman,Talking to Ourselves(Pushkin Press)
- Euan Cameron forJean-Michel Guenassia,The Incorrigible Optimists Club(Atlantic Books)
- Will Firth forAleksandar Gatalica,The Great War(Istros Books)
- Anne Stokes forSarah Kirsch,Ice Roses(Carcanet Press)
- Geoffrey Strachan forJérôme Ferrari,The Sermon on the Fall of Rome(MacLehose Press)
- Stefan Tobler forClarice Lispector,Água Viva(Penguin Books)
- Paul Vincent forErwin Mortier,While the Gods were Sleeping(Pushkin Press)
2016[edit]
- John Cullen forKamel Daoud,The Meursault Investigation(Oneworld)
- Stephen Pearl forIvan Goncharov,The Same Old Story(Alma Classics)
- Don Bartlett forKarl Ove Knausgaard,Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle(Harvill Secker)
- Shaun Whiteside forCharles Lewinsky,Melnitz(Atlantic Books)
- Lola M. Rogers forSofi Oksanen,When the Doves Disappeared(Atlantic Books)
- Lisa C. Hayden forEugene Vodolazkin,Laurus(Oneworld)
2017[edit]
- Ben Faccini forLydie Salvayre,Cry, Mother Spain(MacLehose)
- Philip Ó Ceallaigh forMihail Sebastian,For Two Thousand Years(Penguin Classics)
- Natasha Wimmer forÁlvaro Enrigue,Sudden Death(Harvill Secker)
- Lisa Dillman forYuri Herrera,The Transmigration of Bodies(And Other Stories)
- Lisa C. Hayden forVadim Levental,Masha Regina(Oneworld)
- Rawley Grau forDušan Šarotar,Panorama(Peter Owen World Series/Istros Books)
- Arthur Goldhammer for Stéphane Heuet’s adaptation ofMarcel Proust,In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way(Gallic)
2018[edit]
- Misha Hoekstra forDorthe Nors,Mirror, Shoulder, Signal(Pushkin Press)
- Susan Bernofsky forYoko Tawada,Memoirs of a Polar Bear(Portobello Books)
- Forrest Gander forPablo Neruda,Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems(Bloodaxe Books)
- Helen Constantine forÉmile Zola,A Love Story(Oxford University Press)
- Laura Marris forLouis Guilloux,Blood Dark(New York Review Books)
- Michael Lucey forÉdouard Louis,The End of Eddy(Harvill Secker)
- Celia Hawkesworth forDaša Drndić,Belladonna(MacLehose Press)
2019[edit]
- Philip Roughton -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,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[edit]
- 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,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[edit]
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata,The Last Days of Mandelstam,translated from French by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Seagull)
- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld,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,São Bernardo,translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan (NYRB)
2022[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 18 May.[5]
- Stuart Bell's translation ofBird MebyÉdith Azam – French, the87 press
- Jen Calleja's translation ofThe Liquid LandbyRaphaela Edelbauer – German, Scribe
- Sasha Dugdale's translation ofIn Memory of MemorybyMaria Stepanova– Russian, Fitzcarraldo
- Daniel Hahn's translation ofOccupationbyJulian Fuks– Portuguese (Brazil), Charco Press
- Rachael McGill's translation ofCo-Wives, Co-WidowsbyAdrienne Yabouza– French/Sangho (CAR), Dedalus
- Tiago Miller's translation ofThe Song of YouthbyMontserrat Roig– Catalan, Fum D’Estampa Press
- Cristina Sandu's translation ofUnion of Synchronised SwimmersbyCristina Sandu– Finnish, Scribe
Longlist[edit]
- Bernard Adams's translation ofThe Hangman's HousebyAndrea Tompa – Hungarian, Seagull Books.
- Jack Bevan's translation of theComplete PoemsofSalvatore Quasimodo– Italian, Carcanet
- Alexandra Büchler's translation ofDream of a JourneybyKateřina Rudčenková– Czech, Parthian
- John Litell's translation ofNordic FaunabyAndrea Lundgren– Swedish, Peirene
- Janet Livingstone's translation ofBoat Number FivebyMonika Kompaníková– Slovak, Seagull Books
- Julia Sanches's translation ofPermafrostbyEva Baltasar– Catalan, And Other Stories
- Damion Searls's translation ofA New NamebyJon Fosse– Norwegian, Fitzcarraldo
- Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation ofNight As It FallsbyJakuta Alikavazovic– French, Faber
2023[edit]
Shortlist[edit]
The 2023 shortlist was announced on 18 May.[6]
- Liliana Corobca,The Censor's Notebook(Seven Stories) translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure
- Irene Solà,When I Sing, Mountains Dance(Granta) translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
- Alejandro Zambra,Chilean Poet(Granta) translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Megan McDowell
- Yevgenia Belorusets,Lucky Breaks(Pushkin) translated from the Russian (Ukraine) by Eugene Stashevsky
- Harald Voetmann ,Awake(Lolli) translated from the Danish by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen
- Fatima Daas,The Last One(HopeRoad) translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
- Manuel Astur,Of Saints and Miracles(Peirene) translated from the Spanish by Claire Wadie
- Barbara Sadurska ,The Map(Terra Librorum) translated from the Polish by Kate Webster
Notes[edit]
- ^ab"Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize".The Queen's College. Archived fromthe originalon 23 March 2012.
- ^Matthew Reynolds (Spring 2008)."On Judging the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize"(PDF).Translation and Literature.17.Retrieved25 September2012.
- ^"Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize".The Queen's College.Retrieved26 May2016.
- ^"Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Winner | OCCT".occt.ox.ac.uk.Retrieved6 October2020.
- ^@OxfordCCT (18 May 2022)."We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for this year's Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^@OxfordCCT (18 May 2023)."We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.