Premio Valle-Inclán
The Premio Valle-Inclán is a literary translation prize. It is awarded by the Society of Authors (London) for the best English translation of a work of Spanish literature. It is named after Ramón del Valle-Inclán. The prize money is GBP 2,000.[1]
Past winners[]
Source:[2]
2021[]
- Winner: Fionn Petch for a translation of A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti (Charco Press)[3]
- Runner up: Lisa Dillman for a translation of A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba (Granta)
Shortlist:[4]
- Annie McDermott for a translation of Dead Girls by Selva Almada (Charco Press)
- Sophie Hughes for a translation of Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- Christina MacSweeney for a translation of Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París (Charco Press)
2020 (presented 2021)[]
- Winner: Katherine Silver for a translation of The Word of the Speechless by Julio Ramon Ribeyro (New York Review Books)
- Runner-up: Anne McLean for a translation of Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas (MacLehose Press)
Shortlist:
- Richard Gwyn for a translation of Impossible Loves by Darío Jaramillo (Carcanet Poetry)
- Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick for a translation of A Little Body are Many Parts by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Bloodaxe Books and the Poetry Translation Centre)
- Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes for a translation of Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (Vintage, PRH)
- Megan McDowell for a translation of Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (Oneworld)
2019 (presented 2020)[]
- Winner: Jessica Sequeira for a translation of Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo (Pushkin Press)
- Runner-Up: Sophie Hughes for a translation of The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran (And Other Stories)
Shortlisted:
- Nick Caistor for a translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti (Penguin Classics)
- Charlotte Coombe for a translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (Charco Press)
- William Gregory for a translation of The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays by Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Blanca Doménech, Victor Sánches Rodríguez, Vanessa Montford, and Julio Escalada (Oberon Books)
2018 (presented 2019)[]
- Winner: Megan McDowell for Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (Atlantic)
- Runner-up: Daniel Hahn for In the Land of Giants by Gabi Martínez (Scribe)
Shortlisted:
- and for Inventing Love by José Ovejero (Peter Owen Publishers);
- and Carolina Orloff for Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (Charco Press)
2017 (presented 2018)[]
- Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes (Harvill Secker)
- Commendation: Rosalind Harvey for I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos (And Other Stories)
2016 (presented 2017)[]
- Winner: Christina MacSweeney for The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Granta)
2015 (presented 2016)[]
- Winner: Anne McLean for Outlaws by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury)
2014[]
- Winner: Nick Caistor for An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza (MacLehose Press)
2013[]
- Winner: Frank Wynne for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (Heinemann)
- Runner-up: Nick Caistor and Lorenza García for Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman (Pushkin Press)
- Runner-up: Anne McLean for The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bloomsbury)
2012[]
- Winner: Peter Bush for Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo (Dalkey Archive Press)
- Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga (Harvill Secker)
2011[]
- Winner: Frank Wynne for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras (Atlantic)
- Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Maclehose Press)
2010[]
- Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías (Chatto)
- Christopher Johnson for the Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo (University of Chicago Press).
2009[]
- Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga (Harvill Secker)
- Runner up: Edith Grossman for Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes (Bloomsbury)
2008[]
- Winner: Nick Caistor for The Past by Alan Pauls (Harvill Secker)
- John Dent-Young for Selected Poems by Luis de Góngora (The University of Chicago Press)
2007[]
- Winner: Nick Caistor for The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón (Harvill Secker/Alfaguara)
- Runner up: John Cullen for Lies by Enrique de Hériz (Weidenfeld/Edhasa)
2006[]
- Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías (Chatto & Windus)
- Runner up: Sonia Soto for The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez (Abacus)
2005[]
- Winner: Chris Andrews for Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño (Harvill)
- Runner up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías (Harvill)
2004[]
- Winner: Anne McLean for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury)
2003[]
- Winner: Sam Richard for Not Only Fire by Benjamin Prado (Faber and Faber)
2002[]
- Winner: John D. Rutherford for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Penguin)
- Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende (Flamingo)
2001[]
- Winner: Timothy Adès for Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes (Edinburgh University Press)
- Runner up: Edith Grossman for The Messenger by Mayra Montero (Harvill)
2000[]
- Winner: Sonia Soto for Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Granta)
- Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (Flamingo)
1999[]
- Winner: Don Share for I Have Lots of Heart by Miguel Hernández (Bloodaxe)
1997[]
- Winner: Peter Bush for The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo (Faber)
References[]
- ^ "Premio Valle Inclán (Spanish)". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "News | The Society of Authors". societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "News | The Society of Authors". societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
External links[]
Categories:
- Translation awards