Premio Valle-Inclán

Past winners

2024

• Winner: Chris Andrews, Edith Grossman, and Alastair Reid for their collaborative translation of Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems by Álvaro Mutis.
• Runners-up: Kit Maude for his translation of the novel Cousins by Aurora Venturin.

• Christina MacSweeney for her translation of Fury by Clyo Mendoza.
• Chris Andrews for You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi.
• Clayton Lehmann and Ángela Helmer for their translation of General History of the Indies by Francisco López de Gómara.

2023

• Winner: William Rowe and Helen Dimos for a translation of Trilce. Translations and Glosses by César Vallejo
• Rosalind Harvey for a translation of Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

• Jennifer Croft for a translation of Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez Daniell
• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles for a translation of Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers by various authors
• Forrest Gander for a translation of It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho
• Victor Meadowcroft for a translation of This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire

2022

• Winner: Annie McDermott for a translation of Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate
• Runner-up: Julia Sanches for a translation of Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández González

• Chris Andrews for a translation of The Divorce by César Aira
• Annie McDermott for a translation of Brickmakers by Selva Almada
• Hannah Kauders for a translation of Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa Ojeda
• Megan McDowell for a translation of The [Dangers of Smoking in Bed] by Mariana Enríquez

2021

• Winner: Fionn Petch for a translation of A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti
• Runner-up: Lisa Dillman for a translation of A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba

• Annie McDermott for a translation of Dead Girls by Selva Almada
• Sophie Hughes for a translation of Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
• Christina MacSweeney for a translation of Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París

2020

• Winner: Katherine Silver for a translation of The Word of the Speechless by Julio Ramon Ribeyro
• Runner-up: Anne McLean for a translation of Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas

• Richard Gwyn for a translation of Impossible Loves by Darío Jaramillo
• Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick for a translation of A Little Body are Many Parts by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
• Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes for a translation of Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas
• Megan McDowell for a translation of Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

2019

• Winner: Jessica Sequeira for a translation of Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
• Runner-up: Sophie Hughes for a translation of The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran

• Nick Caistor for a translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
• Charlotte Coombe for a translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo
• William Gregory for a translation of The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays by Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Blanca Doménech, Victor Sánches Rodríguez, Vanessa Montford, and Julio Escalada

2018

• Winner: Megan McDowell for Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
• Runner-up: Daniel Hahn for In the Land of Giants by Gabi Martínez

• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles for Inventing Love by José Ovejero ;
• Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff for Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz

2017

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes
• Commendation: Rosalind Harvey for I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos

2016

• Winner: Christina MacSweeney for The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

2015

• Winner: Anne McLean for Outlaws by Javier Cercas
• Commendation: Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós

2014

• Winner: Nick Caistor for An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza
• Commendation: Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of The Infatuations by Javier Marías

2013

• Winner: Frank Wynne for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
• Runner-up: Nick Caistor and Lorenza García for Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
• Runner-up: Anne McLean for The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

2012

• Winner: Peter Bush for Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga

2011

• Winner: Frank Wynne for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka

2010

• Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías
• Christopher Johnson for the Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo.

2009

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
• Runner-up: Edith Grossman for Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes

2008

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Past by Alan Pauls
• John Dent-Young for Selected Poems by Luis de Góngora

2007

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón
• Runner-up: John Cullen for Lies by Enrique de Hériz

2006

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías
• Runner-up: Sonia Soto for The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez

2005

• Winner: Chris Andrews for Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías

2004

• Winner: Anne McLean for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas

2003

• Winner: Sam Richard for Not Only Fire by Benjamin Prado

2002

• Winner: John D. Rutherford for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Runner-up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

2001

• Winner: Timothy Adès for Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes
• Runner-up: Edith Grossman for The Messenger by Mayra Montero

2000

• Winner: Sonia Soto for Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Muñoz Molina
• Runner-up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

1999

• Winner: Don Share for I Have Lots of Heart by Miguel Hernández

1997

• Winner: Peter Bush for The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo