Scott Moncrieff Prize
The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade.
Sponsors of the prize include the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.
Winners
2010's
2019- Winner: Linda Coverdale for a translation of The Old Slave and the Mastiff by Patrick Chamoiseau
- Runner-up: David Warriner for a translation of We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard
- Penny Hueston for a translation of Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq
- Adriana Hunter for a translation of Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain
- Tina Kover for a translation of Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
- Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah
- Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet
- Runner-up: Frank Wynne for his translation of Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
- Aneesa Abbas Higgins for her translation of Seven Stones by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Sophie Lewis for her translation of Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
- Helen Stevenson for her translation of Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
- Winner: Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn for their translation of The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade
- Commended: Antony Melville for his translation of Anicet or the Panorama by Louis Aragon
- Winner: Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon for their translation of Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
- Commended: Sophie Lewis for her translation of Héloïse is Bald by Émilie du Turckheim
- Winner: Frank Wynne for his translation of Harraga by Boualem Sansal
- Commended: David Bellos for his translation Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec
- Winner: Rachel Galvin for her translation of Hitting the Streets by Raymond Queneau
- Commended: Lulu Norman for her translation of Horses of God by Mahi Binebine
- Winner: Beverley Bie Brahic for her translation of The Little Auto by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Commended: Euan Cameron for his translation of A Journey to Nowhere - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland by Jean-Paul Kauffman
- Winner: Malcolm Imrie for his translation of Fear by Gabriel Chevallier
- Commended: Giles MacDonogh for his translation of Testicles by Blandine Vié
- Winner: Adriana Hunter for Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
- Runners-up: Sarah Ardizzone for her translation of Daniel Pennac’s School Blues and Frank Wynne for his translation of Boualem Sansal’s An Unfinished Business
- Winner: Susan Wicks for Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau
- Joint runners-up: Linda Coverdate for The Strategy of Antelopes by Jean Hatzfeld and Lazer Lederhendler for Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
2000s
- Winner: Polly McLean for Gross Margin by Laurent Quintreau
- Runner up: Barbara Mellor for Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert
- Winner: Frank Wynne for Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years by Frédéric Beigbeder
- Runner up: John Brownjohn for Elizabeth 1st and Mary Stuart by Anka Muhlstein
- Winner: Sarah Adams for Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guène
- Runner up: Geoffrey Strachan for The Woman who Waited by Andrei Makine
- Winner: Linda Coverdale for A Time for Machetes by Jean Hatzfeld
- Runner up: Anthea Bell for Love Without Resistance by Gilles Rozier
- Winner: John Berger and Lisa Appignanesi for The Year is '42 by Nella Bielski
- Winner: Ian Monk for Monsieur Malaussene by Daniel Pennac
- Winner: Linda Asher for Ignorance by Milan Kundera
- Winner: Ina Rilke for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Winner: Barbara Bray for On Identity by Amin Maalouf
- Winner: Patricia Clancy for The Dark Room at Longwood by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
1990s
- Winner: Margaret Mauldon for Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine
- Winners: Janet Lloyd for The Spears of Twlight by [Philippe Descola
1996
- Winner: David Coward for Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
- Winner: Gilbert Adair for A Void by Georges Perec
No Award
1993
- Winner: Christine Donougher for The Book of Nights by Sylvie Germain
- Winners: Barbara Wright for The Midnight Love Feast by Michel Tournier
1991
- Winner: Brian Pearce for Bread and Circuses by Paul Veyne
- Winner: Beryl and John Fletcher for The Georgics by Claude Simon
1980s
- Winner: Derek Mahon for Selected Poems by Philippe Jaccotet
- Winner: Robyn Marsack for The Scorpion-Fish by Nicolas Bouvier
- Winner: Barbara Wright for Grabinoulor by Pierre Albert-Birot
- Winners: Barbara Bray for The Lover by Marguerite Duras
1985
- Winner: Quintin Hoare for War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Runner up: Barbara Wright for Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute
- Winner: Roy Harris for Course in General Linguistics by F. de Saussure
- Winner: Sian Reynolds for The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
- Winner: Anne Carter for Gemini by Michel Tournier
- Winner: Paul Falla for The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome by C. Nicolet
- Winner: Brian Pearce for The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789 by Roland Mousnier
1970s
- Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for The Origin of Table Manners by Claude Levi-Strauss
1978
- Winner: Janet Lloyd for The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne
1977
- Winner: Peter Wait for French Society 1789-1970 by George Dupeux
- Winner: Brian Pearce for Leninism under Lenin by Marcel Liebman
1975
- Winners: D. McN. Lockie for France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu by Victor-L Tapie
1974
- Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for From Honey to Ashes by Claude Levi-Strauss and Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Winner: Barbara Bray for The Erl King by Michel Tournier
- Winner: Paul Stevenson for Germany in our Time by Alfred Grosser
- Special Awards: Joanna Kilmartin for Sunlight on Cold Water by Francois Sagan, and Elizabeth Walter for A Scent of Lillies by Claire Gallois
- Winner: Maria Jolas for Between Life and Death by Nathalie Sarraute
- Runner-up: Jean Stewart for Maltaverne by Francois Mauriac and The Taking of the Bastille by Jacques Godechot
- Winner: W.G. Corp for The Spaniard by Bernard Clavel
- Richard Barry for The Suez Expedition 1956 by Andre Beaufre
- Elaine P. Halperin for The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos
1960s
- Winner: Terence Kilmartin for Anti-memoirs by Andre Malraux and The Girls by Henry de Montherlant
- Special Award: Anthony Rudolf for Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy
- Winner: Jean Stewart for French North Africa by Jacques Berque
- Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean Guehenno
- Winners: Barbara Bray for From Tristram to Yorick by Henri Fluchero and Peter Wiles for A Young Trouti by Roger Vailland
- Winner: Edward Hyams for Joan of Arc
- Runner-up: Humphrey Hare for Memoirs of Zeus by Maurice Druon