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Frank Wynne and Marigold Atkey among SoA Translation Prize winners
Frank Wynne and Marigold Atkey were among the winners of this year’s Society of Authors’ (SoA) Translation Prizes. In total, nine literary translators and one editor were recognised.
Alison Watts took the inaugural Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Prize for her translation from Japanese of The Boy and the Dog (Scriber UK) by Seishu Hase.
Prizes were also awarded for translations into English from Swedish, French, Spanish, Arabic and German, and the TA First Translation Prize went to a translation from Dutch. The prize pot was £28,000 shared between the winners and runners up, up from £19,000 in 2022. The winners were chosen from over 50 shortlisted works.
The prize for debut translations in any language went to translator Sophie Collins and editor Atkey for a translation of The Opposite of a Person (Daunt Books) by Lieke Marsman.
Other winners include Saskia Vogel for what judges described as her “luminous” translation from Swedish of Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm and winning writer and translator Wynne for his “tour-de-force" translation from French of Standing Heavy (MacLehose Press) by GauZ’.
The winners will be celebrated this evening (7th February) at the Translation Prizes ceremony, held in collaboration with the British Library and broadcast online. The awards are sponsored by the Amazon Literary Partnership and the Hawthornden Foundation.
The winners in full
Bernard Shaw Prize
- Winner: Saskia Vogel for a translation of Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm (Lolli Editions)
- Runner-up: Jennifer Hayashida for a translation of Euphoria by Elin Cullhed (Canongate Books)
Premio Valle Inclán Prize
- Winners: William Rowe and Helen Dimos for a translation of Trilce Translations and Glosses by César Vallejo (Veer Books, Crater Press)
- Runner up: Rosalind Harvey for a translation of Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize
- Winner: Luke Leafgren for a translation of Mister N by Najwa Barakat (And Other Stories)
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize
- Winner: Alison Watts for a translation of The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase (Scribner, Simon & Schuster)
- Runners-up: David Boyd for a translation of Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada (Granta) and Sam Bett and David Boyd for a translation of All The Lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
Schlegel-Tieck Prize
- Winner: Jamie Bulloch for a translation of Hinterland by Arno Geiger (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
- Runner-up: Lucy Jones for a translation of Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (Penguin Modern Classics)
Scott Moncrieff Prize
- Winner: Frank Wynne for a translation of Standing Heavy by GauZ (MacLehose Press)
- Runners-up: Adriana Hunter for a translation of The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier (Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House) and Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie (Lilliput Press)
TA First Translation Prize
- Winners: Sophie Collins and editor Marigold Atkey for a translation from Dutch of The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman (Daunt Books)
- Runner-up: Nguyễn An Lý for a translation from Vietnamese of Chinatown by Thuận (Tilted Axis Press)
Goethe–Institut Award
- Winner: Rob Myatt
