Found in Translation Award

The Found in Translation Award is an annual award for the best translation of Polish literature into English. The award is given to the translator who also receive a cash prize of.
The award was established by the Kraków-based Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the W.A.B. Publishing House in Warsaw on 15 October 2007. Since 2015, the FIL Award has been awarded by the Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. The first winner of the award was announced in 2008.

Winners

2008 – Bill Johnston, translator of Tadeusz Różewicz's New Poems
2009 – Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Paweł Huelle's The Last Supper
2010 – Danuta Borchardt, translator of Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia
2011 – Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak, translators of Wisława Szymborska's Here
2012 – Joanna Trzeciak, translator of Tadeusz Różewicz's Sobbing Superpower
2013 – Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of seven books published in 2012:
* Paweł Huelle's Cold Sea Stories
* Jacek Dehnel's Saturn
* Zygmunt Miłoszewski's A Grain of Truth
* Artur Domosławski's Ryszard Kapuściński, A Life
* Wojciech Jagielski's The Night Wanderers
* Andrzej Szczeklik's Kore: On Sickness, the Sick and the Search for the Soul of Medicine
* Janusz Korczak's Kaytek the Wizard
2014 – Philip Boehm, translator of Hanna Krall's Chasing the King of Hearts
2015 – Ursula Phillips, translator of Zofia Nałkowska's Choucas
2016 – Bill Johnston, translator of Tomasz Różycki's Twelve Stations
2017 – Piotr Florczyk, translator of Anna Świrszczyńska's volume of poetry Building the Barricade
2018 – Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights
2019 – Madeline G. Levine, translator of Bruno Schulz's Collected Stories
2020 – Anna Zaranko, translator of Kornel Filipowicz's The Memoir of an Anti-Hero
2021 – Ewa Małachowska-Pasek and Megan Thomas, translators of Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
2022 – Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob
2023 – Anna Zaranko, translator of Władysław Reymont's The Peasants
2024 – Alissa Valles, translator of Zuzanna Ginczanka's Firebird
2025 – Mira Rosenthal, translator of Tomasz Różycki's ''To the Letter''