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 (including scholarship), from any language and period" by an Australian or permanent resident.
Winners
+Medal for Excellence in Translation recipientsYearTranslatorWorkResult2016I Ching: The Book of ChangeWinnerShortlistParis Nocturne, by Patrick ModianoShortlist2018Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds, by Philippe PaquetWinnerHanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King, An Epic from Guangxi in Southern ChinaShortlist, by Ilse AichingerShortlist2020Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, by Marie Darrieussecq Winner, by Émile ZolaShortlistNo Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, by Behrouz Boochani Shortlist2022Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time, by Barbara Stollberg-RilingerWinner and Josef TomášElegies, by Jiří OrtenShortlistShortlist2024On the Line: Notes from a Factory, by Joseph PonthusWinnerFor a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse, by Jiang TaoShortlist and Elena GovorVoices in the Wilderness: A Digest of the Russian-language Press in Australia 1912–1919 Shortlist2026The Principles of Religion, by Rabban Daniel Ibn al-ḤaṭṭābWinner & Penny BaileyThe Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume, by Tsurumi ShunsukeShortlistThe Labyrinth, by Jens BaggesenShortlist
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