The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in 1999. The prize is funded by and named in honour of George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld and by New College, The Queen's College and St Anne's College, Oxford.

Winners

YearTranslatorSource workPublisherAuthorTitleLanguage 1999 Eugenio MontaleCollected PoemsItalianCarcanet Press 2000 José SaramagoAll the NamesPortugueseHarvill Press 2001 Jean RacinePhèdreFrenchCarcanet Press 2002 Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-JelenMiklós BánffyThey Were DividedHungarianArcadia Books 2003 Dante AlighieriInfernoItalianGranta 2004 Ernst JüngerStorm of SteelGermanPenguin 2005 Denis JacksonTheodor StormPaul the PuppeteerGermanAngel Books 2006 Magda SzabóThe DoorHungarianHarvill Secker 2007 Durs GrünbeinAshes for Breakfast: Selected PoemsGermanFaber 2008 José Maria de Eça de QueirósThe MaiasPortugueseDedalus 2009 Saša StanišićHow the Soldier Repairs the GramophoneGerman 2010 Valerio MagrelliThe Embrace: Selected Poems ItalianFaber and Faber 2011 José SaramagoThe Elephant's JourneyPortugueseHarvill Secker 2012 Judith LandryDiego MaraniNew Finnish GrammarItalian 2013 Herta MüllerThe Hunger AngelGermanPortobello 2014 Valérie RouzeauTalking VrouzFrench 2015 Jenny ErpenbeckThe End of DaysGerman 2016 (s)Paul Vincent and John IronsVarious100 Dutch-Language PoemsDutchHolland Park Press 2016 (s)Philip RoughtonJón Kalman StefánssonThe Heart of ManIcelandicMacLehose Press 2017Frank PerryLina WolffBret Easton Ellis and the Other DogsSwedishAnd Other Stories 2018Lisa DillmanAndrés BarbaSuch Small HandsSpanishPortobello Books 2019Celia HawkesworthIvo AndrićOmer Pasha LatasSerbo-CroatianNew York Review of Books2020David HackstonPajtim StatovciCrossingFinnishPushkin Press 2021Nichola SmalleyAndrzej TichýWretchednessSwedishAnd Other Stories 2022Nancy Naomi CarlsonKhal TorabullyCargo Hold of Stars: CoolitudeMauritian FrenchSeagull Books 2023Monica CureLiliana CorobcaThe Censor's NotebookRomanianSeven Stories Press UK2024Mark PolizzottiScholastique MukasongaKibogoRwandan FrenchDaunt Books2025Jeffrey ZuckermanAdèle RosenfeldJellyfish Have No EarsFrenchMacLehose Press

Shortlists 2007 Joel Agee’s translation of Selected Writings by Friedrich Durrenmatt – German, University of Chicago Press Anthea Bell’s translation of Vienna by Eva Menasse – German, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Robin Kirkpatrick’s translation of Inferno by Dante – Italian, Penguin Sverre Lyngstad’s translation of Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad – Norwegian, Harvill Secker Sandra Smith’s translation of Suite française by Irène Némirovsky – French, Chatto and Windus

2008 Richard Dove’s translation of Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Friederike Mayröcker – German, Carcanet Jamie McKendrick’s translation of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani – Italian, Penguin Mike Mitchell’s translation of The Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach – French, Dedalus Natasha Randall’s translation of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – Russian, Vintage Ina Rilke’s translation of The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans – Dutch, Harvill Secker

2009 David Colmer’s translation of The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker – Dutch, Harvill Secker Sarah Death’s translation of The Director by Alexander Ahndoril – Swedish, Portobello Books Christine Donougher’s translation of Magnus by Sylvie Germain – French, Dedalus Michael Hofmann’s translation of The Seventh Well by Fred Wander – German, Granta Marek Tomin’s translation of Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl – Czech, Twisted Spoon

2010 Susan Wicks’s translation of Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau – French, Arc Larisa Gureyeva & George Hyde’s translation of Pro Eto – That’s What by Vladimir Mayakovsky – Russian, Arc Howard Curtis’s translation of Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert – French, Hesperus Press Lazer Lederhendler’s translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner – French, Portobello Books Sam Garrett’s translation of Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa – Dutch, Portobello Books

2011 Anne McLean’s translation of The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Spanish, Bloomsbury Christopher Middleton’s translation of 130 Poems by Jean Follain – French, Anvil Press Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Anna Aslanyan’s translation of Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman – Russian, Harvill Secker Tom Geddes’s translation of The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wästberg – Swedish, Granta Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers’s translation of No Way Back by Theodor Fontane – German, Angel Books

2012 John Ashbery’s translation of Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud – French, Carcanet Margaret Jull Costa’s translation of Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga – Spanish, Harvill Secker Howard Curtis’s translation of How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna – Italian, Pushkin Rosalind Harvey’s translation of Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos – Spanish, And Other Stories Martin McLaughlin’s translation of Into the War by Italo Calvino – Italian, Penguin

2013 Tess Lewis’s translation of One Hundred Days by Lukas Bärfuss – German, Granta Louise B. Popkin’s translation of Witness by Mario Benedetti – Spanish, White Pine Press Sam Taylor’s translation of HHhH by Laurent Binet – French, Harvill Secker Frank Wynne’s translation of The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto – Spanish, Heinemann Mike Mitchell’s translation of The Lairds of Cromarty by Jean-Pierre Ohl – French, Dedalus

2014 Anthea Bell’s translation of In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge – German, Faber Isabel Fargo Cole’s translation of The Jew Car by Franz Fühmann – German, Seagull Books David Homel’s translation of The Enigma of the Return by Dany Laferrière – French, MacLehose Press Peter Daniels’s translation of Selected Poems Vladislav Khodasevich – Russian, Angel Classics Alastair McEwen’s translation of Every Promise by Andrea Bajani – Italian, MacLehose Press Edward Gauvin’s translation of The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry – French, Wakefield Press Mira Rosenthal’s translation of Colonies by Tomasz Różycki – Polish, Zephyr Press

2015 Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia’s translation of Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman – Spanish, Pushkin Press Euan Cameron’s translation of The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia – French, Atlantic Books Will Firth’s translation of The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica – Serbian, Istros Books Anne Stokes’s translation of Ice Roses by Sarah Kirsch – German, Carcanet Press Geoffrey Strachan’s translation of The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jérôme Ferrari – French, MacLehose Press Stefan Tobler’s translation of Água Viva by Clarice Lispector – Portuguese, Penguin Books Paul Vincent’s translation of While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier – Dutch, Pushkin Press

2016 John Cullen’s translation of The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud – French, Oneworld Stephen Pearl’s translation of The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov – Russian, Alma Classics Don Bartlett’s translation of Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard – Norwegian, Harvill Secker Shaun Whiteside’s translation of Melnitz by Charles Lewinsky – German, Atlantic Books Lola M. Rogers’s translation of When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen – Finnish, Atlantic Books Lisa C. Hayden’s translation of Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin – Russian, Oneworld

2017 Ben Faccini’s translation of Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre – French, MacLehose Philip Ó Ceallaigh’s translation of For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian – Romanian, Penguin Classics Natasha Wimmer’s translation of Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue – Spanish, Harvill Secker Lisa Dillman’s translation of The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera – Spanish, And Other Stories Lisa C. Hayden’s translation of Masha Regina by Vadim Levental – Russian, Oneworld Rawley Grau’s translation of Panorama by Dušan Šarotar – Slovenian, Peter Owen World Series/Istros Books Arthur Goldhammer’s translation of Stéphane Heuet’s graphic-novel adaptation of In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust – French, Gallic

2018 Misha Hoekstra’s translation of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors – Danish, Pushkin Press Susan Bernofsky’s translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada – German, Portobello Books Forrest Gander’s translation of Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems by Pablo Neruda – Spanish, Bloodaxe Books Helen Constantine’s translation of A Love Story by Émile Zola – French, Oxford University Press Laura Marris’s translation of Blood Dark by Louis Guilloux – French, New York Review Books Michael Lucey’s translation of The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis – French, Harvill Secker Celia Hawkesworth’s translation of Belladonna by Daša Drndić – Croatian, MacLehose Press

2019 Philip Roughton’s translation of About the Size of the Universe by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, – Icelandic, MacLehose Bryan Karetnyk’s translation of The Beggar and Other Stories by Gaito Gazdanov – Russian, Pushkin Press Delija Valiukenas’s translation of Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė – Lithuanian, Peirene Ken Cockburn’s translation of Heroines from Abroad by Christine Marendon – German, Carcanet Nick Caistor’s translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti – Spanish, Penguin Rosie Hedger’s translation of Zero by Gine Cornelia Pedersen – Norwegian, Nordisk Books Rachael McGill’s translation of The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk – French, Dedalus

2020 David Connolly and Joshua Barley’s translation of A Greek Ballad by Michális Ganás – Greek, Yale UP Tina Kover’s translation of Older Brother by Mahir Guven – French, Europa Anya Migdal’s translation of Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya – Russian, Daunt Books Ina Rilke and David McKay’s translation of Max Havelaar by Multatuli – Dutch, New York Review Books Rawley Grau’s translation of Billiards at the Hotel Dobray by Dušan Šarotar – Slovene, Istros Books Jethro Soutar’s translation of The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio – Portuguese, Dedalus Jamie Bulloch’s translation of You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke – German, Peirene Press

2021 Teresa Lavender Fagan’s translation of The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata – French, Seagull Michele Hutchison’s translation of The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld – Dutch, Faber Karen Leeder’s translation of I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig – German, Seagull Suzanne Jill Levine’s translation of Bezoar by Guadalupe Nettel – Spanish, Seven Stories Press UK Anna Moschovakis’s translation of At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop – French, Pushkin Caroline Schmidt’s translation of Grove by Esther Kinsky – German, Fitzcarraldo Padma Viswanathan’s translation of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos – Portuguese, NYRB

2022 The 2022 shortlist was announced on 18 May. Stuart Bell's translation of Bird Me by – French, the87 press Jen Calleja's translation of The Liquid Land by – German, Scribe Sasha Dugdale's translation of In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova – Russian, Fitzcarraldo Daniel Hahn's translation of Occupation by Julian Fuks – Portuguese (Brazil), Charco Press Rachael McGill's translation of Co-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne Yabouza – French/Sangho (CAR), Dedalus Tiago Miller's translation of The Song of Youth by Montserrat Roig – Catalan, Fum D’Estampa Press Cristina Sandu's translation of Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu – Finnish, Scribe

Longlist Bernard Adams's translation of The Hangman's House by – Hungarian, Seagull Books. Jack Bevan's translation of the Complete Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo – Italian, Carcanet