Medal for Excellence in Translation


The Medal for Excellence in Translation is a biannual literary award presented by the Australian Academy of the Humanities "for a book-length translation into English of a work of any genre, from any language and period" by an Australian or permanent resident.

Winners

YearTranslatorWorkResult
2016I Ching: The Book of ChangeWinner
2016'Shortlist
2016Paris Nocturne, by Patrick ModianoShortlist
2018Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds, by Philippe PaquetWinner
2018Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King, An Epic from Guangxi in Southern ChinaShortlist
2018', by Ilse AichingerShortlist
2020Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, by Marie DarrieussecqWinner
2020', by Émile ZolaShortlist
2020No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, by Behrouz BoochaniShortlist
2022Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time, by Barbara Stollberg-RilingerWinner
2022 and Josef TomášElegies, by Jiří OrtenShortlist
2022'Shortlist
2024On the Line: Notes from a Factory, by Joseph PonthusWinner
2024For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse, by Jiang TaoShortlist
2024 and Elena GovorVoices in the Wilderness: A Digest of the Russian-language Press in Australia 1912–1919Shortlist