Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.[1] The first prize was awarded in 1999.[2] The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Weidenfeld and by New College, The Queen's College and St Anne's College, Oxford.[1]
| Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | A book-length translation into English from any other living European language |
| Sponsored by | Lord Weidenfeld and Oxford University |
| Country | England |
| Hosted by | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| First awarded | 1999 |
| Last awarded | Active |
| Website | http://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/oxford-weidenfeld-prize |
Winners
Source:[3]
| Year | Translator | Source work | Publisher | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (translator) | 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 |
Notes
- "Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize". The Queen's College. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012.
- Matthew Reynolds (Spring 2008). "On Judging the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize" (PDF). Translation and Literature. 17. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- "Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize". The Queen's College. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- "Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Winner | OCCT". www.occt.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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