John Glassco Translation Prize


The John Glassco Translation Prize is an annual Canadian literary award, presented by the Literary Translators' Association of Canada to a book judged the year's best translation into either English or French of a work originally written in any language. The winning writer is awarded $1,000 and a free membership to LTAC.

Winners

  • 1982 - Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Neons in the Night
  • 1983 - Michèle Venet and Jean Lévesque, L'Invasion du Canada
  • 1984 - Barbara Mason, Description of San Marco
  • 1985 - Wayne Grady, Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut, Also Known as Bear
  • 1986 - Carole Noël, On n'en meurt pas
  • 1987 - Liedewy Hawke, Hopes and Dreams: The Diary of Henriette Dessaulles 1874-1881
  • 1988 - Heather Parker, Juliette
  • 1989 - Charlotte Melançon, Shakespeare et son théâtre
  • *Honourable Mention - Donald Winkler, Rose and Thorn: Selected poems of Roland Giguère
  • 1990 - Daniel McBain, Cocori
  • 1991 - Matt Cohen, The Secret Voice
  • 1992 - Bruno Guévin, No 44, le mystérieux étranger
  • *Honourable Mention: Richard Tardif, Tonnerre noir
  • 1993 - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Ana Historique
  • *Honourable Mention: Pierre Anctil, Poèmes yiddish / Yidishe lieder
  • 1994 - Claire Rothman, The Influence of a Book
  • 1995 - Florence Bernard, Cet heritage au gout de sel
  • 1996 - Bodil Jelhof Jensen, Dilemma
  • 1997 - Don Coles, For the Living and the Dead
  • 1998 - Diego Bastianutti, A Major Selection of the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti
  • 1999 - Jill Cairns, The Indiscernible Movement
  • 2000 - Chava Rosenfarb, Bociany and Of Lodz and Love
  • *Honourable Mention: Rachelle Renaud, Any Mail? and other stories
  • 2001 - Agnès Guitard, Les hauturiers
  • *Honourable Mention: S. E. Stewart, The Setting Lake Sun
  • 2002 - Ook Chung, Le champ électrique
  • 2003 - Yolande Amzallag, Le canari éthique. Science, société et esprit humain
  • 2004 - Emmy Bos, La chambre d'amis
  • *Honourable Mention - Hélène Garrett, Haiku in Papiamentu
  • 2005 - Benoit Léger, Miracles en série
  • 2006 - Francis Catalano, Instructions pour la lecture d'un journal
  • *Honourable mention: Joan Irving, Caribou Hunter: A Song of a Vanished Innu Life
  • 2007 - Marie Frankland, La chaise berçante
  • 2008 - Caroline Larue, La prophétie d'Ophelia
  • *Honourable mention: Daniel Canty, Pierre blanche: Poèmes d'Alice
  • 2009 - no prize
  • 2010 - Louis Bouchard and Marie-Elisabeth Morf, D’ailleurs
  • 2011 - Casey Roberts, Break Away: Jessie on My Mind
  • 2012 - no prize
  • 2013 - Madeleine Stratford, Ce qu'il faut dire a des fissures
  • 2014 - Stéphanie Roesler, Helleborus et Alchémille
  • 2015 - Marietta Morry and Lynda Muir, As the Lilacs Bloomed
  • 2016 - no prize
  • 2017 - Catherine Leroux, Corps conducteurs
  • 2018 - Sauline Letendre, Rouge, jaune et vert
  • 2019 - Rémi Labrecque, Mes souliers me fonts mourir
  • 2020 - Louis Hamelin, Les été de l’ourse
  • 2021 - Luba Markovskaia, Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine
  • 2022 - Louise Gaudette, Dernière heure
  • 2023 - D.M. Bradford, House Within a House
  • 2024 - Yilin Wang, The Lantern and the Night Moths''