Scott Moncrieff Prize

The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator Charles 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. Past recipients include Gilbert Adair for his translation of "La Disparition" and Linda Asher for her translation of Milan Kundera's "Ignorance".

Past Winners

* 2008 Frank Wynne "Holiday in a Coma"/"Love Lasts Three Years" by Frédéric Beigbeder
* 2007 Sarah Adams Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guène
* 2006 Linda Coverdale A Time for Machetes by Jean Hatzfeld
* 2005 John Berger and Lisa Appignanesi The Year is '42 by Nella Bielski
* 2004 Ian Monk Monsieur Malaussene by Daniel Pennac
* 2003 Linda Asher Ignorance by Milan Kundera
* 2002 Ina Rilke Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
* 2001 Barbara Bray On Identity by Amin Maalouf
* 2000 Patricia Clancy The Dark Room at Longwood by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
* 1999 Margaret Mauldon Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
* 1998 Geoffrey Strachan Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine
* 1997 Janet Lloyd The Spears of Twlight by Philippe Descola, Christopher Hampton Art by Yasmina Reza
* 1996 David Coward Belle de Seigneur by Albert Cohen
* 1995 Gilbert Adair A Void by Georges Perec
* 1994 No Award
* 1993 Christine Donougher The Book of Nights by Sylvie Germain
* 1992 Barbara Wright The Midnight Love Feast by Michel Tournier
* 1991 Brian Pearce Bread and Circuses by Paul Veyne
* 1990 Beryl and John Fletcher The Georgics by Claude Simon
* 1989 Derek Mahon Selected Poems by Philippe Jaccotet
* 1988 Robyn Marsack The Scorpion-Fish by Nicolas Bouvier
* 1987 Barbara Wright Grabinoulor by Pierre Albert-Birot
* 1986 Barbara Bray The Lover by Marguerite Duras , Richard Nice Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
* 1985 Quintin Hoare War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War by Jean-Paul Sartre
* 1984 Roy Harris Course in General Linguistics by F. de Saussure
* 1983 Sian Reynolds The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
* 1982 Anne Carter Gemini by Michel Tournier
* 1981 Paul Falla The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome by C. Nicolet
* 1980 Brian Pearce The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789 by Roland Mousnier
* 1979 John and Doreen Weightman The Origin of Table Manners by Claude Levi-Strauss
* 1978 Janet Lloyd The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne
* 1977 Peter Wait French Society 1789-1970 by George Dupeux
* 1976 Brian Pearce Leninism under Lenin by Marcel Liebman
* 1975 D. McN. Lockie France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu by Victor-L Tapie
* 1974 John and Doreen Weightman From Honey to Ashes by Claude Levi-Strauss
* 1973 Barbara Bray The Erl King by Michel Tournier
* 1972 Paul Stevenson Germany in our Time by Alfred Grosser
* 1971 Maria Jolas Between Life and Death by Nathalie Sarraute
* 1970 W.G. Corp The Spaniard by Bernard Clavel
* 1969 Terence Kilmartin Anti-memoirs by Andre Malraux
* 1968 Jean Stewart French North Africa by Jacques Berque
* 1967 John and Doreen Weightman Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean Guehenno
* 1966 Barbara Bray From Tristram to Yorick by Henri Fluchero (OUP), Peter Wiles A Young Trouti by Roger Valliand
* 1965 Edward Hyams Joan of Arc (Regino Iornoud Macdonald) 2nd: Humphrey Hare Memoirs of Zeus by Maurice Druon (Hart-Davis)

References

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