The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000

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for French to English

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, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the

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to have "literary merit". Only translations first published in the

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are considered for the accolade. Sponsors of the prize include the

French Ministry of Culture The Ministry of Culture (french: Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the . Its goal is to maintain the French identity through the promotion and protection of the arts (visual ...

, the

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, and the

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Winners

2020's

2021 * Winner:

Sam Taylor Samuel, Sam or Sammy Taylor (male first name) may refer to: Arts * Sam Taylor (director) (1895–1958), American film director and screenwriter * Samuel W. Taylor (1907–1997), American author * Samuel A. Taylor (1912–2000), playwright and scre ...

for a translation of ''The Invisible Land'' by Hubert Mingarelli (Granta) * Runner up: Emily Boyce for a translation of ''A Long Way Off'' by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) Shortlisted: * Helen Stevenson for a translation of ''The Death of Comrade President'' by

Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing ...

(Profile Books: Serpent’s Tail) * Roland Glasser for a translation of ''Real Life'' by Adeline Dieudonné (World Editions) * Laura Marris for a translation of ''Those Who Forget'' by Géraldine Schwarz (Pushkin Press) * Aneesa Abbas Higgins for a translation of ''Winter in Sokcho'' by

Elisa Shua Dusapin Elisa Shua Dusapin, born 23 October 1992 in Sarlat-la-Canéda, France, is a Franco-Korean writer currently living in Switzerland. In 2016, Elisa Shua Dusapin published her first novel, '' Hiver à Sokcho'', which won numerous awards, including t ...

(Daunt Books Publishing) 2020 (presented 2021) * Winner: Aneesa Abbas Higgins for a translation of ''A Girl Called Ee''l by Ali Zamir ( Jacarada Books) * Runner-up:

Frank Wynne Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine '' Deadline''. He worked for a time at AOL before becomi ...

for a translation of ''Animalia'' by Jean-Baptiste del Amo ( Fitzcarraldo Editions) Shortlisted:

Geoffrey Strachan Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English. He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andreï Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza, Nathacha A ...

for a translation of ''The Archipelago of Another Life'' by Andreï Makine ( MacLehose Press) * Jordan Stump for a translation of ''The Cheffe'' by Marie NDiaye ( MacLehose Press) * Mark Hutchinson for a translation of ''The Governesses'' by

Anne Serre Anne Serre (born September 7, 1960) is a French writer. She was born in Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern F ...

(Les Fugitives) * Natasha Lehrer for a translation of ''Memories of Low Tide'' by

Chantal Thomas Chantal Thomas (born 18 October 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, ''Farewell, My Queen'', won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux. Career Thomas was born in Lyon ...

(

Pushkin Press Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Ant ...

)

2010's

2019 (presented 2020) * Winner:

Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoisea ...

for a translation of ''The Old Slave and the Mastiff'' by Patrick Chamoiseau (Dialogue Books) *Runner-up: David Warriner for a translation of ''We Were the Salt of the Sea'' by

Roxanne Bouchard Roxanne Bouchard (born 1972) is a Canadian writer and educator from Quebec. She is best known for her series of maritime crime fiction novels centred on the investigations of detective Joaquin Moralès in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. Early life a ...

( Orenda Books) Shortlisted: * Penny Hueston for a translation of ''Our Life in the Forest'' by Marie Darrieussecq (

Text Publishing Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong We ...

) *

Adriana Hunter Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She is known for translating over 60 French novels, such as '' Fear and Trembling'' by Amélie Nothomb or '' The Girl Who Played Go'' by Shan Sa. She has been short-listed for the Ind ...

for a translation of ''Woman at Sea'' by

Catherine Poulain Catherine Poulain (born 1960) is a French writer. Life Born in Barr, Poulain left France at the age of twenty and travelled on various continents. She arrived in Quebec in 1987, then settled in Alaska where she worked as a fisherman for ten y ...

(

Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation ...

) * Tina Kover for a translation of ''Disoriental'' by

Négar Djavadi Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an Iranian-French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel '' Disoriental (Désorientale)''.Dalia Sofer"A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile" '' The New ...

( Europa Editions) *

for a translation of '' Tropic of Violence'' by

Nathacha Appanah Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah (born 24 May 1973 in Mahébourg, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-French author. She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at ''Le Mauricien'' and ''Week-End Scope'' befor ...

( MacLehose Press) 2018 (presented 2019) *Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of ''Pretending is Lying'' by

Dominique Goblet Dominique Goblet (Brussels, 8 July 1967) is a Belgian visual artist, illustrator and pioneer of the European graphic novel. She lives and works in Brussels. Her work can be defined as experimental, varied in style, poetic and often biographical. ...

( New York Review Comics) * Runner-up:

for his translation of ''Vernon Subutex 1'' by Virginie Despentes ( MacLehose Press/Quercus) Shortlistees: * Aneesa Abbas Higgins for her translation of ''Seven Stones'' by Vénus Khoury-Ghata ( Jacaranda Books) *

Sophie Lewis Sophie Lewis (born 2002) is a British and English track cyclist. Cycling career Lewis became a British champion when winning the Omnium event at the 2022 British National Track Championships The 2022 British National Track Championships wer ...

for her translation of ''Blue Self-Portrait'' by Noémi Lefebvre (

Les Fugitives Les Fugitives is a London-based independent publisher. They principally publish short works by Francophone female authors that have previously not been published in English translation. Their titles have won many awards and include: * ''Suite for ...

) * Helen Stevenson for her translation of ''Black Moses by''

(

Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distributed in the UK by ...

) 2017 (presented 2018) * Winner:

Will McMorran Will may refer to: Common meanings * Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death * Will (philosophy), or willpower * Will (sociology) * Will, volition (psychology) * Will, a modal verb - see Shall and will ...

and Thomas Wynn for their translation of ''The 120 Days of Sodom'' by the

Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well as numerous accusat ...

(

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) * Commended:

Antony Melville for Antony may refer to: * Antony (name), a masculine given name and a surname * Antony, Belarus, a village in the Hrodna Voblast of Belarus * Antony, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom ** Antony House, Cornwall, United Kingdom * Antony, H ...

his translation of ''Anicet or the Panorama'' by

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review '' Littérature''. He w ...

( Atlas Press) 2016 (presented 2017) * Winner: Natasha Lehrer and

Cécile Menon Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname. People Given name * Ce'cile (Cecile Charlton, born 1976), Jamaican musician * Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), Cameroonian author * Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), retired French film actres ...

for their translation of ''Suite for Barbara Loden'' by Nathalie Léger (

) * Commended:

for her translation of ''Héloïse is Bald'' by

Émilie du Turckheim Émilie () is a French female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Émile. Spelled Emilie, it is used internationally. People named Émilie *Émilie Bigottini (1784–1858), French dancer of Italian ancestry *Émilie Bonnivard ...

(

) 2015 (presented 2016) * Winner:

for his translation of ''Harraga'' by Boualem Sansal (

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...

) * Commended: David Bellos for his translation ''Portrait of a Man'' by

Georges Perec Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holo ...

( MacLehose Press) 2014 * Winner:

Rachel Galvin Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her au ...

for her translation of ''Hitting the Streets'' by

Raymond Queneau Raymond Queneau (; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (''Ouvroir de littérature potentielle Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentiell ...

( Carcanet Press) * Commended:

Lulu Norman Lulu may refer to: Companies * LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer * Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer * Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia * Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, ...

for her translation of ''Horses of God'' by

Mahi Binebine Mahi Binebine ( ar, ماحي بنيبين) is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages. Career Born in 1959 in Marrakech, Mahi Binebine moved i ...

(

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

) 2013 * Winner: Beverley Bie Brahic for her translation of ''The Little Auto'' by

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French French poetry, poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered ...

(

CB Editions CB and variants may refer to: Places * CB postcode area, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office * Cambodia (FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram CB) * Cape Breton (disambiguation) * C ...

) * Commended: Euan Cameron for his translation of ''A Journey to Nowhere - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland'' by

Jean-Paul Kauffman Jean-Paul Kauffmann (8 August 1944, Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Mayenne) is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (40th class). Biography His great-grandfather Michel Kauffmann left Alsac ...

( MacLehose Press) 2012 * Winner: Malcolm Imrie for his translation of ''Fear'' by

Gabriel Chevallier Gabriel Chevallier (3 May 1895 – 6 April 1969) was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire '' Clochemerle''. Biography Born in Lyon in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier was educated in various schools before entering Lyon École des ...

(

Serpent's Tail Serpent's Tail is London-based independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It specialises in publishing work in translation, particularly European crime fiction. In January 2007, it was bought by a British publisher Profile Book ...

) * Commended: Giles MacDonogh for his translation of ''Testicles'' by

Blandine Vié Saint Blandina (french: Blandine, c. 162–177 AD) was a Christian martyr who died in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France) during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Context In the first two centuries of the Christian era, it was the local Roman of ...

( Prospect Books) 2011 * Winner:

for ''Beside the Sea'' by Véronique Olmi (Peirene) * Runners-up:

Sarah Ardizzone Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams) is a literary translator, working from French to English. She has won the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation two times (2005 and 2009), and the Scott-Moncrieff Prize once in 2007. Career Ardizzone ...

for her translation of

Daniel Pennac Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay '' Chagrin d'école''. Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Cors ...

’s ''School Blues'' ( Maclehose Press) and Frank Wynne for his translation of Boualem Sansal’s ''An Unfinished Business'' (

) 2010 * Winner:

Susan Wicks Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist. She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent. She teaches at Goldsm ...

for ''Cold Spring in Winter'' by Valérie Rouzeau ( Arc Publications) * Joint runners-up:

for ''The Strategy of Antelopes'' by Jean Hatzfeld (Serpent’s Tail) and Lazer Lederhendler for ''Nikolski'' by

Nicolas Dickner Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2005 novel ''Nikolski'', which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated E ...

( Portobello)

2000s

2009 * Winner: Polly McLean for ''Gross Margin'' by

Laurent Quintreau Laurent may refer to: *Laurent (name), a French masculine given name and a surname **Saint Laurence (aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent **Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician **Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, amateur astronomer, discoverer ...

(Harvill Secker) * Runner up: Barbara Mellor for ''Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France'' by

Agnes Humbert Agnes or Agness may refer to: People *Agnes (name), the given name, and a list of people named Agnes or Agness * Wilfrid Marcel Agnès (1920–2008), Canadian diplomat Places *Agnes, Georgia, United States, a ghost town *Agnes, Missouri, United ...

(Bloomsbury) 2008 * Winner: Frank Wynne for ''Holiday in a Coma and Love Lasts Three Years'' by

Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel '' Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book ''Un roman fran� ...

(Fourth Estate) * Runner up: John Brownjohn for ''Elizabeth 1st and Mary Stuart'' by Anka Muhlstein (Haus Books) 2007 * Winner: Sarah Adams for ''Just Like Tomorrow'' by Faïza Guène (Chatto) * Runner up: Geoffrey Strachan for ''The Woman who Waited'' by Andrei Makine (Sceptre) 2006 * Winner: Linda Coverdale for ''A Time for Machetes'' by Jean Hatzfeld ( Serpent’s Tail) * Runner up: Anthea Bell for ''Love Without Resistance'' by Gilles Rozier (

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...

) 2005 * Winner:

John Berger John Peter Berger (; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel '' G.'' won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism '' Ways of Seeing'', written as an accompaniment to the ...

and Lisa Appignanesi for ''The Year is '42'' by

Nella Bielski Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress. Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied philosophy at Moscow Stat ...

(

) 2004 * Winner: Ian Monk for ''Monsieur Malaussene'' by

(Harvill) 2003 * Winner: Linda Asher for ''Ignorance'' by

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himsel ...

(Faber and Faber) 2002 * Winner: Ina Rilke for ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'' by

Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University. ...

(Chatto & Windus) 2001 * Winner: Barbara Bray for ''On Identity'' by

Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ar, أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French"Amin ...

(Harvill) 2000 * Winner: Patricia Clancy for ''The Dark Room at Longwood'' by

Jean-Paul Kauffmann Jean-Paul Kauffmann (8 August 1944, Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Mayenne) is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (40th class). Biography His great-grandfather Michel Kauffmann left Alsace ...

(Harvill)

1990s

1999 * Winner: Margaret Mauldon for ''Against Nature'' by

Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel '' À rebou ...

(OUP) 1998 * Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for ''Le Testament Francais'' by Andreï Makine (Sceptre) 1997 * Winners: Janet Lloyd for ''The Spears of Twlight'' by

Philippe Descola Philippe Descola, FBA (born 19 June 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory. Background Descola started with an interest in philo ...

(Harper Collins) and Christopher Hampton for ''Art'' by

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays '' 'Art and '' God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 bl ...

(Faber and Faber) 1996 * Winner: David Coward for '' Belle du Seigneur'' by Albert Cohen (Viking) 1995 * Winner: Gilbert Adair for ''A Void'' by

(Harvill) 1994 No Award 1993 * Winner: Christine Donougher for ''The Book of Nights'' by Sylvie Germain (Dedalus) 1992 * Winners: Barbara Wright for ''The Midnight Love Feast'' by

Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the ''Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française'' in 1967 for ''Friday, or, The Other Island'' and the Prix Goncourt for '' The Erl-King'' in ...

(Collins) and James Kirkup for ''Painted Shadows'' by Jean Baptiste-Niel (Quartet) 1991 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''Bread and Circuses'' by

Paul Veyne Paul Veyne (; 13 June 1930 – 29 September 2022) was a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist of Ancient Rome. A student of the École Normale Supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he was honorary professor at t ...

(Penguin) 1990 * Winner: Beryl and John Fletcher for ''The Georgics'' by Claude Simon (Calder)

1980s

1989 * Winner: Derek Mahon for ''Selected Poems'' by Philippe Jaccotet (Viking Penguin) 1988 * Winner:

Robyn Marsack Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 t ...

for ''The Scorpion-Fish'' by

Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier (6 March 1929 in Lancy – 17 February 1998) was a 20th-century Swiss traveller, writer, picture editor and photographer. He studied in Geneva in the 1950s and lived there later between his travels. Life Bouvier was born at Gra ...

(

Carcanet Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was named the ''Sunday Times'' millennium Small Publisher of the Year. History ''Carcanet'' was originally a li ...

) 1987 * Winner: Barbara Wright for ''Grabinoulor'' by

Pierre Albert-Birot Pierre Albert-Birot (22 April 1876 – 25 July 1967) was a French avant-garde poet, dramatist, and theater manager. He was a steadfast avant-garde during World War I, through the magazine ''Sic'' he created and published from 1916 to 1919. He wa ...

(Atlas) 1986 * Winners:

Barbara Bray Barbara Bray (née Jacobs; 24 November 1924 – 25 February 2010) was an English translator and critic. Early life Bray was born in Maida Vale, London; her parents had Belgian and Jewish origins. An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe was al ...

for ''The Lover'' by

Marguerite Duras Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film '' Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) e ...

(Collins) and

Richard Nice Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'str ...

for ''Distinction'' by

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

(

Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, ...

) 1985 * Winner:

Quintin Hoare Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian.

for ''War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War'' by

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialist, existentialism (and Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter ...

(

Verso ' is the "right" or "front" side and ''verso'' is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper () in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. Etymology The terms are shortened from Lati ...

) * Runner up: Barbara Wright for ''Childhood'' by

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak ( rus, Ната́лья Ильи́нична Черня́к); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. Personal life Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), 300&n ...

( Calder) 1984 * Winner: Roy Harris for ''Course in General Linguistics'' by F. de Saussure (Duckworth) 1983 * Winner: Sian Reynolds for ''The Wheels of Commerce'' by

Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...

(Collins) 1982 * Winner: Anne Carter for ''Gemini'' by

(Collins) 1981 * Winner: Paul Falla for ''The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome'' by C. Nicolet (Batsford) 1980 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789'' by

Roland Mousnier Roland Émile Mousnier (; Paris, September 7, 1907– February 8, 1993, Paris) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. Life Mousnier was born in Paris and receiv ...

(University of Chicago Press)

1970s

1979 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''The Origin of Table Manners'' by

Claude Levi-Strauss Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

(Jonathan Cape) and Richard Mayne for ''Memoirs'' (Collins) 1978 * Winner: Janet Lloyd for ''The Gardens of Adonis'' by Marcel Detienne (Harvester Press) and David Hapgood for ''The Totalitarian Temptation'' by Jean-Francois Revel (Secker & Warburg) 1977 * Winner: Peter Wait for ''French Society 1789-1970'' by

George Dupeux George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

(Methuen) 1976 * Winner: Brian Pearce for ''Leninism under Lenin'' by

Marcel Liebman Marcel Liebman (7 July 1929 – 1 March 1986) was a Belgian Marxist historian of political sociology and theory, active at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Life A historian of socialism and of communism, he p ...

(Jonathan Cape) and Douglas Parmee for ''The Second World War'' by

Henri Michel Henri Louis Michel (28 October 1947 – 24 April 2018) was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the worl ...

(Andre Deutsch) 1975 * Winners: D. McN. Lockie for ''France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu'' by Victor-L Tapie (Macmillan) and Joanna Kilmartin for ''Scars on the Soul'' by Francoise Sagan (Andre Deutsch) 1974 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''From Honey to Ashes'' by Claude Levi-Strauss (Collins) and ''Tristes Tropiques'' by Claude Levi-Strauss (Jonathan Cape) 1973 * Winner: Barbara Bray for ''The Erl King'' by

(Collins) 1972 * Winner: Paul Stevenson for ''Germany in our Time'' by

Alfred Grosser Alfred Grosser (born 1 February 1925 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist. He is known for his contributions towards the Franco-German cooperation after World War II and for criticizing Israel. E ...

(Pall Mall Press) * Special Awards: Joanna Kilmartin for ''Sunlight on Cold Water'' by Francois Sagan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), and Elizabeth Walter for ''A Scent of Lilies'' by

Claire Gallois Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, ...

(Collins) 1971 * Winner: Maria Jolas for ''Between Life and Death'' by

(Calder & Boyars) * Runner-up: Jean Stewart for ''Maltaverne'' by Francois Mauriac (Eyre & Spottiswoode) and ''The Taking of the Bastille'' by Jacques Godechot (Faber and Faber) 1970 * Winner: W.G. Corp for ''The Spaniard'' by Bernard Clavel (Harrap) * Richard Barry for ''The Suez Expedition 1956'' by Andre Beaufre (Faber) * Elaine P. Halperin for ''The Other Side of the Mountain'' by

Michel Bernanos Michel Bernanos (20 January 1923 – 27 July 1964) was a French poet and fantasy writer. He was the fourth child of French writer Georges Bernanos. He also used Michel Talbert and Michel Drowin as pen names to avoid the reputation of his father's ...

(Gollancz)

1960s

1969 * Winner: Terence Kilmartin for ''Anti-memoirs'' by Andre Malraux (Hamish Hamilton) and ''The Girls'' by

Henry de Montherlant Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Biography Born in Paris, a descendant of ...

(Weidenfeld & Nicolson) * Special Award: Anthony Rudolf for ''Selected Poems'' by

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was p ...

(Jonathan Cape) 1968 * Winner: Jean Stewart for ''French North Africa'' by Jacques Berque (Faber) 1967 * Winner: John and Doreen Weightman for ''Jean Jacques Rousseau'' by

Jean Guehenno Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Je ...

(Routledge & Kegan Paul) 1966 * Winners: Barbara Bray for ''From Tristram to Yorick'' by Henri Fluchero (OUP) and Peter Wiles for ''A Young Trouti'' by Roger Vailland (Collins) 1965 * Winner: Edward Hyams for ''Joan of Arc'' (Regino Iornoud Macdonald) * Runner-up: Humphrey Hare for ''Memoirs of Zeus'' by

Maurice Druon Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Life and career Born in Paris, France, Druon was the s ...

(Hart-Davis)

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-past-winners, title=Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation Translation awards Society of Authors awards Awards established in 1965 1965 establishments in the United Kingdom