Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.^[1] The first prize was awarded in 1999.^[2] The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Weidenfeld and by New College, The Queen's College and St Anne's College, Oxford.^[1]

• Joel Agee’s translation of Selected Writings by Friedrich Durrenmatt – German, University of Chicago Press
• Anthea Bell’s translation of Vienna by Eva Menasse – German, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Robin Kirkpatrick’s translation of Inferno by Dante – Italian, Penguin
• Sverre Lyngstad’s translation of Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad – Norwegian, Harvill Secker
• Sandra Smith’s translation of Suite française by Irène Némirovsky – French, Chatto and Windus

• Richard Dove’s translation of Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Friederike Mayröcker – German, Carcanet
• Jamie McKendrick’s translation of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani – Italian, Penguin
• Mike Mitchell’s translation of The Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach – French, Dedalus
• Natasha Randall’s translation of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – Russian, Vintage
• Ina Rilke’s translation of The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans – Dutch, Harvill Secker

• David Colmer’s translation of The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker – Dutch, Harvill Secker
• Sarah Death’s translation of The Director by Alexander Ahndoril – Swedish, Portobello Books
• Christine Donougher’s translation of Magnus by Sylvie Germain – French, Dedalus
• Michael Hofmann’s translation of The Seventh Well by Fred Wander – German, Granta
• Marek Tomin’s translation of Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl – Czech, Twisted Spoon

• Susan Wicks’s translation of Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau – French, Arc
• Larisa Gureyeva & George Hyde’s translation of Pro Eto – That’s What by Vladimir Mayakovsky – Russian, Arc
• Howard Curtis’s translation of Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert – French, Hesperus Press
• Lazer Lederhendler’s translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner – French, Portobello Books
• Sam Garrett’s translation of Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa – Dutch, Portobello Books

• Anne McLean’s translation of The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Spanish, Bloomsbury
• Christopher Middleton’s translation of 130 Poems by Jean Follain – French, Anvil Press
• Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Anna Aslanyan’s translation of Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman – Russian, Harvill Secker
• Tom Geddes’s translation of The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wästberg – Swedish, Granta
• Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers’s translation of No Way Back by Theodor Fontane – German, Angel Books

• John Ashbery’s translation of Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud – French, Carcanet
• Margaret Jull Costa’s translation of Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga – Spanish, Harvill Secker
• Howard Curtis’s translation of How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna – Italian, Pushkin
• Rosalind Harvey’s translation of Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos – Spanish, And Other Stories
• Martin McLaughlin’s translation of Into the War by Italo Calvino – Italian, Penguin

• Tess Lewis’s translation of One Hundred Days by Lukas Bärfuss – German, Granta
• Louise B. Popkin’s translation of Witness by Mario Benedetti – Spanish, White Pine Press
• Sam Taylor’s translation of HHhH by Laurent Binet – French, Harvill Secker
• Frank Wynne’s translation of The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto – Spanish, Heinemann
• Mike Mitchell’s translation of The Lairds of Cromarty by Jean-Pierre Ohl – French, Dedalus

• Anthea Bell’s translation of In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge – German, Faber
• Isabel Fargo Cole’s translation of The Jew Car by Franz Fühmann – German, Seagull Books
• David Homel’s translation of The Enigma of the Return by Dany Laferrière – French, MacLehose Press
• Peter Daniels’s translation of Selected Poems Vladislav Khodasevich – Russian, Angel Classics
• Alastair McEwen’s translation of Every Promise by Andrea Bajani – Italian, MacLehose Press
• Edward Gauvin’s translation of The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry – French, Wakefield Press
• Mira Rosenthal’s translation of Colonies by Tomasz Różycki – Polish, Zephyr Press

• Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia’s translation of Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman – Spanish, Pushkin Press
• Euan Cameron’s translation of The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia – French, Atlantic Books
• Will Firth’s translation of The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica – Serbian, Istros Books
• Anne Stokes’s translation of Ice Roses by Sarah Kirsch – German, Carcanet Press
• Geoffrey Strachan’s translation of The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jérôme Ferrari – French, MacLehose Press
• Stefan Tobler’s translation of Água Viva by Clarice Lispector – Portuguese, Penguin Books
• Paul Vincent’s translation of While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier – Dutch, Pushkin Press

• John Cullen’s translation of The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud – French, Oneworld
• Stephen Pearl’s translation of The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov – Russian, Alma Classics
• Don Bartlett’s translation of Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard – Norwegian, Harvill Secker
• Shaun Whiteside’s translation of Melnitz by Charles Lewinsky – German, Atlantic Books
• Lola M. Rogers’s translation of When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen – Finnish, Atlantic Books
• Lisa C. Hayden’s translation of Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin – Russian, Oneworld

• Ben Faccini’s translation of Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre – French, MacLehose
• Philip Ó Ceallaigh’s translation of For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian – Romanian, Penguin Classics
• Natasha Wimmer’s translation of Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue – Spanish, Harvill Secker
• Lisa Dillman’s translation of The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera – Spanish, And Other Stories
• Lisa C. Hayden’s translation of Masha Regina by Vadim Levental – Russian, Oneworld
• Rawley Grau’s translation of Panorama by Dušan Šarotar – Slovenian, Peter Owen World Series/Istros Books
• Arthur Goldhammer’s translation of Stéphane Heuet’s graphic-novel adaptation of In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust – French, Gallic

• Misha Hoekstra’s translation of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors – Danish, Pushkin Press
• Susan Bernofsky’s translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada – German, Portobello Books
• Forrest Gander’s translation of Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems by Pablo Neruda – Spanish, Bloodaxe Books
• Helen Constantine’s translation of A Love Story by Émile Zola – French, Oxford University Press
• Laura Marris’s translation of Blood Dark by Louis Guilloux – French, New York Review Books
• Michael Lucey’s translation of The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis – French, Harvill Secker
• Celia Hawkesworth’s translation of Belladonna by Daša Drndić – Croatian, MacLehose Press

• Philip Roughton’s translation of About the Size of the Universe by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, – Icelandic, MacLehose
• Bryan Karetnyk’s translation of The Beggar and Other Stories by Gaito Gazdanov – Russian, Pushkin Press
• Delija Valiukenas’s translation of Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė – Lithuanian, Peirene
• Ken Cockburn’s translation of Heroines from Abroad by Christine Marendon – German, Carcanet
• Nick Caistor’s translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti – Spanish, Penguin
• Rosie Hedger’s translation of Zero by Gine Cornelia Pedersen – Norwegian, Nordisk Books
• Rachael McGill’s translation of The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk – French, Dedalus

• David Connolly and Joshua Barley’s translation of A Greek Ballad by Michális Ganás – Greek, Yale UP
• Tina Kover’s translation of Older Brother by Mahir Guven – French, Europa
• Anya Migdal’s translation of Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya – Russian, Daunt Books
• Ina Rilke and David McKay’s translation of Max Havelaar by Multatuli – Dutch, New York Review Books
• Rawley Grau’s translation of Billiards at the Hotel Dobray by Dušan Šarotar – Slovene, Istros Books
• Jethro Soutar’s translation of The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio – Portuguese, Dedalus
• Jamie Bulloch’s translation of You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke – German, Peirene Press

• Teresa Lavender Fagan’s translation of The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata – French, Seagull
• Michele Hutchison’s translation of The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – Dutch, Faber
• Karen Leeder’s translation of I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig – German, Seagull
• Suzanne Jill Levine’s translation of Bezoar by Guadalupe Nettel – Spanish, Seven Stories Press UK
• Anna Moschovakis’s translation of At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop – French, Pushkin
• Caroline Schmidt’s translation of Grove by Esther Kinsky – German, Fitzcarraldo
• Padma Viswanathan’s translation of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos – Portuguese, NYRB

The 2022 shortlist was announced on 18 May.^[4]

• Stuart Bell's translation of Bird Me by Édith Azam – French, the87 press
• Jen Calleja's translation of The Liquid Land by Raphaela Edelbauer – German, Scribe
• Sasha Dugdale's translation of In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova – Russian, Fitzcarraldo
• Daniel Hahn's translation of Occupation by Julian Fuks – Portuguese (Brazil), Charco Press
• Rachael McGill's translation of Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza – French/Sangho (CAR), Dedalus
• Tiago Miller's translation of The Song of Youth by Montserrat Roig – Catalan, Fum D’Estampa Press
• Cristina Sandu's translation of Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu – Finnish, Scribe

• Bernard Adams's translation of The Hangman's House by Andrea Tompa – Hungarian, Seagull Books.
• Jack Bevan's translation of the Complete Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo – Italian, Carcanet
• Alexandra Büchler's translation of Dream of a Journey by Kateřina Rudčenková – Czech, Parthian
• John Litell's translation of Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren – Swedish, Peirene
• Janet Livingstone's translation of Boat Number Five by Monika Kompaníková – Slovak, Seagull Books
• Julia Sanches's translation of Permafrost by Eva Baltasar – Catalan, And Other Stories
• Damion Searls's translation of A New Name by Jon Fosse – Norwegian, Fitzcarraldo
• Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Night As It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic – French, Faber

The 2023 shortlist was announced on 18 May.^[5]

• Monica Cure’s translation of The Censor's Notebook by Liliana Corobca – Romanian, Seven Stories
• Mara Faye Lethem’s translation of When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà – Catalan, Granta
• Megan McDowell’s translation of Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra – Spanish (Chile), Granta
• Eugene Ostashevsky’s translation of Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets – Russian (Ukraine), Pushkin
• Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen’s translation of Awake by Harald Voetmann – Danish, Lolli
• Lara Vergnaud’s translation of The Last One by Fatima Daas – French, HopeRoad
• Claire Wadie’s translation of Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur – Spanish, Peirene
• Kate Webster’s translation of The Map by Barbara Sadurska – Polish, Terra Librorum

The 2024 shortlist was announced on 21 May.^[6]

• Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart's translation of Historiae by Antonella Anedda – Italian, NYRB
• Daniel Hahn's translation of The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa – Portuguese (Angola), MacLehose
• Ellen Jones's translation of The Remains by Margo Glantz – Spanish (Mexico), Charco
• Johnny Lorenz's translation of Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior – Portuguese (Brazil), Verso
• Jenny McPhee's translation of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante – Italian, NYRB
• Zoe Perry's translation of Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia – Portuguese (Brazil), Charco
• Mark Polizzotti's translation of Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga – French (Rwanda), Daunt
• Oonagh Stransky's translation of The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone – Italian, Europa

• Carla Baricz's translation of Exiled Shadow by Norman Manea – Romanian, Yale UP
• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles's translation of Sur by Antonio Soler – Spanish, Peter Owen
• Katrina Dodson's translation of Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade – Portuguese (Brazil), Fitzcarraldo
• Michael Hofmann's translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck – German, Granta
• Lola Rogers's translation of Summer Fishing in Lapland by Juhani Karila – Finnish, Pushkin
• Jordan Stump's translation of Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiaye – French, MacLehose
• Sam Taylor's translation of Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop – French (Senegal), Pushkin
• Alissa Valles's translation of Firebird by Zuzanna Ginczanka – Polish, NYRB

The 2025 shortlist was announced on 21 May.^[7]

• Alison Anderson's translation of The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr – French (Senegal), Europa
• Piotr Florczyk and Alice-Catherine Carls's translation of A Calligraphy of Days by Krzysztof Siwczyk – Polish, Seagull
• Celia Hawkesworth's translation of The Brass Age by Slobodan Šnajder – Croatian, Mountain Leopard
• Megan McDowell's translation of Childish Literature by Alejandro Zambra – Spanish (Chile), Fitzcarraldo
• Philip Roughton's translation of Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson – Icelandic, MacLehose
• Oonagh Stransky's translation of Abandonment by Erminia Dell’Oro – Italian, Heloise
• Katie Whittemore's translation of Un Amor by Sara Mesa – Spanish, Peirene
• Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld – French, MacLehose

• Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall's translation of Chrysalis, Pastoral in B Minor by Susanna Rafart – Catalan, Fum d’Estampa
• Boris Dralyuk's translation of The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov – Ukrainian, MacLehose
• Kristen Gehrman's translation of I Will Live by Lale Gül – Dutch, Virago
• Michele Hutchison's translation of My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld – Dutch, Faber
• Karen Leeder's translation of Shining Sheep by Ulrike Almut Sandig – German, Seagull
• Megan McDowell's translation of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez – Spanish (Argentina), Granta
• Frances Riddle's translation of Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro – Spanish (Argentina), Charco
• Saskia Vogel's translation of The Singularity by Balsam Karam – Swedish, Fitzcarraldo

• Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize