Scott Moncrieff Prize

The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 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". Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade.

Sponsors of the prize include the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.

Winners

2010's

2019 (presented 2020)

Shortlisted:

      2018 (presented 2019)

      • Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet (New York Review Comics)

      Shortlistees:

      2017 (presented 2018)

      2016 (presented 2017)

      2015 (presented 2016)

      2014

      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

      2011

      2010

      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

      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

      1990s

      1999

      1998

      • Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine (Sceptre)

      1997

      • Winners: Janet Lloyd for The Spears of Tw[light by Philippe Descola (Harper Collins)

      and Christopher Hampton for Art by Yasmina Reza (Faber and Faber)

      1996

      1995

      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

      1987

      1986

      and Richard Nice for Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu (Routledge)

      1985

      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

      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

      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 Lillies 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)
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