Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation is a literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom since 1996 to the translator of an outstanding work of fiction for young readers translated into English.

The award is given every two years, and was administered by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton University, and in 2007 was sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust and subsidised by the Arts Council of England. From 2008 the award has been administered by the English-Speaking Union.^[1]

Winners

2015 – Margaret Jull Costa for The Adventures of Shola, translated from Spanish; original in Basque (author: Bernardo Atxaga)
2013 – Howard Curtis for In the Sea there are Crocodiles, translated from Italian (author: Fabio Geda)^[2]
2011 – Martin Cleaver for Letters to Anyone and Everyone, translated from Dutch (author: Toon Tellegen)
2009 – Sarah Ardizzone for Toby Alone, translated from French (author: Timothée de Fombelle)^[3]
2007 – Anthea Bell for The Flowing Queen, translated from German (author: Kai Meyer)
2005 – Sarah Adams for Eye of the Wolf, translated from French (author: Daniel Pennac)
2003 – Anthea Bell for Where Were You Robert?, translated from German (author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
2001 – Betsy Rosenberg for Duel, translated from Hebrew (author: David Grossman)
1999 – Patricia Crampton for The Final Journey, translated from German (author: Gudrun Pausewang)
1996 – Anthea Bell for A Dog's Life, translated from German (author: Christine Nöstlinger)

Multiple-award winners

Translator Anthea Bell has won three of the nine awards conferred since its establishment.

The American Library Association inaugurated its annual award for translated children's books in 1968, the Mildred L. Batchelder Award. It is conferred upon the publisher. Bell was the translator of four books that won Batchelder Awards from 1976 to 1995 and Patricia Crampton was the translator of the books that won in 1984 and 1987.^[4]

References

↑ English-Speaking Union
↑ English Speaking Union: Howard Curtis wins the 2013 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation
↑ Marsh Christian Trust
↑ "Batchelder Award winners, 1968–Present". ALSC. American Library Association. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

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