Vondel Prize

The Vondel Prize is a literary translation prize, for full-length works from the Dutch into English. The prize was established in 1996 by the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, and is named after the 17th-century Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel.^[1]

Winners[]

2021[]

• Winner:David Doherty for a translation of Summer Brother by Jaap Robben (World Editions)^[2]
• Runner-up:David McKay for a translation of Adrift in the Middle Kingdom by J. Slauerhoff (Handheld Press)

Shortlisted:

• David Colmer for a translation of Will by Jeroen Olyslaegers (Pushkin Press)
• Jane Hedley-Prole for a translation of The Republic by Joost de Vries (Other Press)
• Laura Watkinson for a translation of Lampie by Annet Schaap (Pushkin Children’s)

2019[]

• Winner: Michele Hutchison for a translation of Stage Four by Sander Kollaard (Amazon Crossing)
• Runner-up: for a translation of Monte Carlo by Peter Terrin (Macehose Press)

Shortlisted:

• for a translation of Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer (Pushkin Press)
• for a translation of The Story of Shit by Midas Dekkers (Text Publishing)

2017[]

• Winner: for his translation of War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Harvill Secker)
• Commended: David Doherty for his translations of The Dutch Maiden by Marente de Moor and You Have Me To Love by Jaap Robben (World Editions)

2015[]

• Winners: for his translation of In Those Days by Remco Campert (Shoestring Press) and Laura Watkinson for her translation of The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (Pushkin Press)
• Commended: Sam Garrett for his translation of Tirza by Arnon Grunberg (Open Letter)

2013[]

• Winner: David Colmer for The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst (Portobello)
• Commended: Ina Rilke for The Black Lake by Hella S. Haasse (Portobello)
• Commended: and for Mother Number Zero by Marjolijn Hof (House of Anansi)

2011[]

• Winner: for My Little War by Louis Paul Boon (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Runner-up: David Colmer for The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten (Scribe Publications)

2009[]

• Winner: for Ararat: In Search of the Mythical Mountain by Frank Westerman (Harvill Secker)
• Runner Up: for What It Is: Selected Poems by Esther Jansma (Bloodaxe Books)

2007[]

• Winner: Susan Massotty for My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah (Canongate)
• Runner-up: for Daalder’s Chocolates by Philibert Schogt (Thunder's Mouth Press)

2005[]

• Winner: for Colors Demonic & Divine: Shades of Meaning in the Middle Ages & After by Herman Pleij (Columbia University Press)

2003[]

• Winner: for The Rider by Tim Krabbe (Bloomsbury)
• Runner up: Susan Massotty for All Souls’ Day by Cees Nooteboom (Picador)

2001[]

• Winner: for A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein (Doubleday)
• Highly commended: for Metaphors of Memory by Douwe Draaisma (Cambridge University Press)
• Highly commended: Stacey Knecht for Desire by Hugo Claus (Viking)
• Highly commended: for Darwin’s Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt (MIT Press)

1999[]

• Winner: Ina Rilke for Roads to Santiago by Cees Noteboom (Harvill/Harcourt Brace) and The Virtuoso by Margriet de Moor (Picador)
• Highly commended: Sam Garrett for The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet) and Mali Blues by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet)

1996[]

• Winner: Stacey Knecht for The Great Longing by Marcel Möring (Flamingo)
• Highly commended: Noel Clark for Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel (Absolute Press)

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