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]

Previous winners

2010: Jamie McKendrick for his translation of Valerio Magrelli’s The Embrace: Selected Poems (Faber and Faber)
2009: Anthea Bell for her translation of Saša Stanišic's How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
2008: Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of Eça de Queiroz's The Maias (Dedalus)
2007: Michael Hofmann for his translation of Durs Grunbein's Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems (Faber)
2006: Len Rix for his translation of Magda Szabó's The Door (Harvill Secker)
2005: Denis Jackson for his translation of Theodor Storm's Paul the Puppeteer (Angel Books)
2004: Michael Hofmann for his translation of Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel (Penguin)
2003: Ciaran Carson for his translation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno (Granta)
2002: Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen for Miklos Banffy's They Were Divided (Arcadia)
2001: Edwin Morgan for his translation of Phèdre by Jean Racine (Carcanet) into Scots
2000: Margaret Jull Costa for the translation of Jose Saramago's All the Names (Harvill)
1999: Jonathan Galassi for his translation of Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems (Carcanet)