Scott Moncrieff Prize
The Scott Moncrieff Prize is an English literary prize that was established in 1965 by the Translators Association (TA). This prize is awarded annually by a jury that recognizes a translation from French. The condition is that the work has been translated into English for the first time.
With the Scott Moncrieff Prize , TA honors the Scottish translator Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , who first translated Proust's In Search of Lost Time into English from 1922 .
Currently this literature prize is u. a. sponsored by the French Ministry of Education , the French Embassy in London and the Arts Council England .
Award winners
| year | translator | Book title | author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Edward Hyams | Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc par même-elle et pas ses témoins) | Regine Pernoud |
| 1966 | Barbara Bray Peter Wiles |
Laurence Sterne, from Tristram to Yorick (Laurence Sterne, de l'homme à l'œuvre) A young trout (La truite) |
Henri Fluchère Roger Vailland |
| 1967 | John Weightman | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) | Jean Guéhenno |
| 1968 | Jean Stewart | French North Africa (Le Magrib entre deux guerres) | Jacques Berque |
| 1969 | Terence Kilmartin | Anti-memoirs (antimémoires) The girls (Les jeunes filles) |
André Malraux Henry de Montherlant |
| 1970 | William G. Corp | The Spaniard (L'espagnol) | Bernard Clavel |
| 1971 | Maria Jolas | Between life and death (Entre la vie et la mort) | Nathalie Sarraute |
| 1972 | Paul Stevenson | Germany in our time (L'Allemagne de notre temps) | Alfred Grosser |
| 1973 | Barbara Bray | The Erl King (Le roi des Aulnes) | Michel Tournier |
| 1974 | John Weightman | From Honey to Ashes (Du miel au cendres) Tristes Tropiques (Tristes Tropiques) |
Claude Levi-Strauss |
| 1975 | David M. Lockie | France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu (La France de Louis XIII et de Richelieu) | Victor-Lucien Tapie |
| 1976 | Brian Pearce Douglas Parmee |
Leninism under Lenin (Le léninisme sous Lénine) The Second World War (La seconde guerre mondiale) |
Marcel Liebman Henri Michel |
| 1977 | Peter Wait | French Society 1789-1970 (La société française 1789-1960) | Georges Dupeux |
| 1978 | Janet Lloyd David Hapgood |
The gardens of Adonis (Les jardins d'Adonis) The totalitarian temptation (La tentation totalitaire) |
Marcel Detienne Jean-François Revel |
| 1979 | John Weightman Janet Lloyd |
The origin of table manners (L'origine de manières de table) Memoirs (Mémoires) |
Claude Levi-Strauss Jean Monnet |
| 1980 | Brian Pearce | The institutions of France under the absolute monarchy (Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue) | Roland Mousnier |
| 1981 | Paul Falla | The world of the citizen in republican Rome (Le métier de citoyen dans la Rome républicaine) | Claude Nicolet |
| 1982 | Anne Carte | Gemini (Les météores) | Michel Tournier |
| 1983 | Sian Reynolds | The wheels of commerce (Les jeux de l'echange) | Fernand Braudel |
| 1984 | Roy Harris | Course in general linguistiques (Cours de linguistique générale) | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| 1985 | Quintin Hoare | War diaries (Les carnets de la drôle de guerre) | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 1986 | Barbara Bray Richard Nice |
The lover (L'amant) Distinction (distinction) |
Marguerite Duras Pierre Bourdieu |
| 1987 | Barbara Wright | Grabinoulor (Grabinoulor) | Pierre Albert-Birot |
| 1988 | Robyn Marsack | The Scorpion fish (La poisso-scorpion) | Nicolas Bouvier |
| 1989 | Derek Mahon | Selected Poems (poems) | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 1990 | Beryl Fletcher | The Georgics (Les Géorgiques) | Claude Simon |
| 1991 | Brian Pearce | Bread and Circusses (Le pain et le cirque) | Paul Veyne |
| 1992 | Barbara Wright | The Midnight love feast (The medianoche amoureux) | Michel Tournier |
| 1993 | Christine Donougher | The Book of Nights (Le livre des nuits) | Sylvie Germain |
| 1994 | no award | ||
| 1995 | Gilbert Adair | A void (La disparition) | Georges Perec |
| 1996 | David Coward | Belle du Seigneur (Belle du Seigneur) | Albert Cohen |
| 1997 | Janet Lloyd Christopher Hampton |
The Spears of twilight (Les lances du crépuscule) Art (Art) |
Philippe Descola Yasmina Reza |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Strachan | Le testament Francais (Le testament français) | Andreï Makine |
| 1999 | Margaret Mauldon | Against Nature (à rebors) | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| 2000 | Patricia Clancy | The dark room of Longwood (La chambre noire de Longwood) | Jean-Paul Kauffmann |
| 2001 | Barbara Bray | On identity (Les identités meurtières) | Amin Maalouf |
| 2002 | Ina Rilke | Balzac and the little chinese seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) | Dai Sijie |
| 2003 | Linda Asher | Ignorance (L'ignorance) | Milan Kundera |
| 2004 | Ian Monk | Monsieur Malaussene (Monsieur Malaussene) | Daniel Pennac |
| 2005 |
John Berger Lisa Appignanesi |
The Year is '42 (L'était l'an 42) | Nella Bielski |
| 2006 | Linda Coverdale | A Time for Machetes (Une Saison de Machettes) | Jean Hatzfeld |
| 2007 | Sarah Adams | Just like tomorrow (Kiffe, kiffe demain) | Faïza Guène |
| 2008 | Frank Wynne | Holiday in a Coma (Vacances dans le coma) Love lasts three years (L'amour dure trois ans) |
Frédéric Beigbeder |
| 2009 | Polly McLean | Gross Margin (Marge brute) | Laurent Quintreau |
| 2010 | Susan Wicks | Cold spring in winter (Pas revoir) | Valérie Rouzeau |
| 2011 | Adriana Hunter | Beside the sea (Bord de la mer) | Véronique Olmi |
| 2012 | Malcolm Imrie | Fear (La peur) | Gabriel Chevallier |
| 2013 | Beverley Bie Brahic | Little Auto (La petite auto) | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| 2014 | Rachel Galvin | Hitting the streets (poems) | Raymond Queneau |
| 2015 | Frank Wynne | Harraga (harraga) | Boualem Sansal |
| 2016 | Natasha teacher | Suite for Barbara Loden (Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden) | Nathalie Léger |
| 2017 | Will McMorran | The 120 Days of Sodom (Les cent vingt journées de Sodome) | Donatien Alphonse François de Sade |
| 2018 | Sophie Yanow | Pretending is Lying (Faire semblant c'est mentir) | Dominique Goblet |
| 2019 | Linda Coverdale | The old slave and the Mastiff (L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse) | Patrick Chamoiseau |
Individual evidence
- ↑ The TA is part of the International Federation of Translators and belongs to the Society of Authors in
- ↑ As of July 2020
- ↑ the German edition can be found under The Lovers
- ↑ the German edition can be found under The subtle differences
- ↑ the German edition can be found under The Beauty of the Lord
- ↑ the German edition can be found under Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
- ↑ the German edition can be found under Love lasts three years
- ↑ the German edition can be found under The 120 Days of Sodom