Scott Moncrieff Prize


The Scott Moncrieff Prize, established in 1965, and named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £3,000 literary prize for French-to-English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". The runner-up receives £1,000. The Prizes is currently sponsored by the Institut Français du Royaume Uni. Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade.
Sponsors of the prize have included the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.

Winners

2020's

2023
Shortlisted:
  • Adriana Hunter for a translation of The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
  • Teresa Lavender Fagan for a translation of Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury–Ghata
  • Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie
  • Lucy Raitz for a translation of Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
  • Shaun Whiteside for a translation of What You Need From The Night by Laurent Petitmangin
  • Frank Wynne for a translation of Standing Heavy by GauZ'
2022
Shortlisted:
2021
Shortlisted:
2020
Shortlisted:
Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of The Archipelago of Another Life by Andreï Makine

2010's

2019
Shortlisted:
2018
Shortlistees:
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010

2000s

2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
  • Winner: Ina Rilke for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
2001
2000

1990s

1999
1998
  • Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for Le Testament Francais by Andreï Makine
1997
and Christopher Hampton for Art by Yasmina Reza
1996
1995
1994
No Award
1993
  • Winner: Christine Donougher for The Book of Nights by Sylvie Germain
1992
and James Kirkup for Painted Shadows by Jean Baptiste-Niel
1991
  • Winner: Brian Pearce for Bread and Circuses by Paul Veyne
1990
  • Winner: Beryl and John Fletcher for The Georgics by Claude Simon

1980s

1989
1988
1987
1986
and Richard Nice for Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
1985
1984
  • Winner: Roy Harris for Course in General Linguistics by F. de Saussure
1983
1982
1981
  • Winner: Paul Falla for The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome by C. Nicolet
1980
  • Winner: Brian Pearce for The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789 by Roland Mousnier

1970s

1979
and Richard Mayne for Memoirs
1978
and David Hapgood for The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean-Francois Revel
1977
  • Winner: Peter Wait for French Society 1789-1970 by George Dupeux
1976
and Douglas Parmee for The Second World War by Henri Michel
1975
  • Winners: D. McN. Lockie for France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu by Victor-L Tapie
and Joanna Kilmartin for Scars on the Soul by Francoise Sagan
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970

1960s

1969
1968
1967
  • Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean Guehenno
1966
1965
  • Winner: Edward Hyams for Joan of Arc
  • Runner-up: Humphrey Hare for Memoirs of Zeus by Maurice Druon