The Scott Moncrieff Prize, established in 1965, and named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £3,000

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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 Translators Association to have "literary merit". The runner-up receives £1,000. The Prizes is currently sponsored by the

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du Royaume Uni. Only translations first published in the

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are considered for the accolade. Sponsors of the prize have included the

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, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.

Winners

2020's

2023 *Winner:

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

for a translation of ''Standing Heavy'' by

GauZ' GauZ', also known as Armand Gauz, is the author name of Armand Patrick Gbaka-Brédé. He was born March 22, 1971 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He is an author, publisher, screenwriter, and actor. He is particularly renowned for his literary work, whi ...

(MacLehose Press) *Runners-up:

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 ''The Anomaly'' by

Hervé Le Tellier Hervé Le Tellier (; born 21 April 1957) is a French writer and linguistics, linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature") ...

(Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House) and Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of ''Yell, Sam, If You Still Can'' by Maylis Besserie (Lilliput Press) Shortlisted: *

for a translation of ''The Anomaly'' by

(Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House) * Teresa Lavender Fagan for a translation of ''Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga'' by Vénus Khoury–Ghata (Seagull Books) * Clíona Ní Ríordáin for a translation of ''Yell, Sam, If You Still Can'' by Maylis Besserie (Lilliput Press) * Lucy Raitz for a translation of ''Swann in Love'' by Marcel Proust (Pushkin Press) *

Shaun Whiteside Shaun Whiteside (born 1959) is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including '' Manituana'' and ''Altai'' by Wu Ming, ''The Weekend'' by Bernhard Schlink, ''Serotonin'' b ...

for a translation of ''What You Need From The Night'' by Laurent Petitmangin (Picador, Pan Macmillan) *

for a translation of ''Standing Heavy'' by

(MacLehose Press) 2022 * Winner: Sarah Ardizzone for a translation of ''Men Don’t Cry'' by Faïza Guène (Cavassa Republic Press) * Runner Up: Lara Vergnaud for a translation of ''The Ardent Swarm'' by

Yamen Manai Yamen Manai is a Tunisian people, Tunisian writer. His debut novel ''La Marche de l’incertitude'' appeared in 2010 and won the Comar d’Or Prize in Tunisia, and the Lycéens Coup de Cœur de Coup de Soleil Prize in France. His next book ''La S� ...

(Amazon Crossing) Shortlisted: * Chris Andrews for a translation of ''A Bookshop in Algiers'' by

Kaouther Adimi Kaouther Adimi (born 1986) is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009. Life Kaouther Adimi was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1986. From the age of four to ...

(Serpent’s Tail) *

for a translation of ''The Art of Losing'' by Alice Zeniter (Pan Macmillan and Picador) * Sheila Fischman for a translation of Em by

Kim Thúy Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CM CQ (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam)

(Seven Stories Press) 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 sc ...

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 (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:

for a translation of ''Animalia'' by Jean-Baptiste del Amo ( Fitzcarraldo Editions) Shortlisted: Geoffrey Strachan 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 (Les Fugitives) * Natasha Lehrer for a translation of ''Memories of Low Tide'' by Chantal Thomas ( Pushkin Press)

2010's

2019 (presented 2020) * Winner: Linda Coverdale for a translation of ''The Old Slave and the Mastiff'' by

Patrick Chamoiseau Patrick Chamoiseau (; born 3 December 1953) is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement. His work spans a variety of forms and genres, including novels, essays, children's books, screenplays, theatre and comic ...

(Dialogue Books) *Runner-up: David Warriner for a translation of ''We Were the Salt of the Sea'' by Roxanne Bouchard ( Orenda Books) Shortlisted: * Penny Hueston for a translation of ''Our Life in the Forest'' by

Marie Darrieussecq Marie Darrieussecq (; born 3 January 1969, Bayonne) is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. Her books explore the unspoken and abandoned territories in literature. Her work is dense, marked by a consta ...

(

Text Publishing Text Publishing is an 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 Weng Ho and oth ...

) *

for a translation of ''Woman at Sea'' by Catherine Poulain (

Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape is a British publishing firm headquartered in London and founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard (1893–1968) set up the publishing house in ...

) * Tina Kover for a translation of ''Disoriental'' by Négar Djavadi ( Europa Editions) * Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of '' Tropic of Violence'' by Nathacha Appanah ( MacLehose Press) 2018 (presented 2019) *Winner: Sophie Yanow for her translation of ''Pretending is Lying'' by Dominique Goblet ( New York Review Comics) * Runner-up:

for his translation of ''Vernon Subutex 1'' by

Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory o ...

( MacLehose Press/Quercus) Shortlistees: * Aneesa Abbas Higgins for her translation of ''Seven Stones'' by

Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a Lebanese people in France, French-Lebanese poet and writer. Early life Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronites, Maronite family, the daughter of a French-speaking soldier and a peasa ...

(

Jacaranda Books Jacaranda Books is a Black-owned British independent book publishing firm launched in 2012 and known for their effort promoting diversity in United Kingdom's publishing industry. History Jacaranda Books was founded in December 2011 in Lo ...

) *

Sophie Lewis Sophie Lewis (born 2002) is a British and English track cyclist. She won a bronze medal in the women’s team pursuit representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was also a bronze medalist in the women’s team pursuit at the 202 ...

for her translation of ''Blue Self-Portrait'' by

Noémi Lefebvre Noémi Lefebvre (born 1964) is a French writer. She studied music and politics, eventually becoming a political scientist at the Instituts d'études politiques of Grenoble II. She has written several books, among them ''L’autoportrait bleu'' (20 ...

( Les Fugitives) * 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 events, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distribu ...

) 2017 (presented 2018) * Winner: Will McMorran 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 writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography ...

(

Penguin Classics Penguin Classics is an imprint (trade name), imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English language, English, Spanish language, Spanish, Portuguese language, Portuguese, and Korean language, Korean amon ...

) * Commended: Antony Melville for 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 Surrealism, surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littératur ...

(

Atlas Press Atlas Press began publishing in 1983, and specialises in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day. It is the largest publisher in English of books on Surrealism and has an extensive list relating to Dada, Surreal ...

) 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 actress a ...

for their translation of ''Suite for Barbara Loden'' by Nathalie Léger ( Les Fugitives) * Commended:

for her translation of ''Héloïse is Bald'' by Émilie du Turckheim (

) 2015 (presented 2016) * Winner:

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

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural institution, cultural, intellectual, and educational ...

) * Commended:

David Bellos David Bellos (born 1945) is a British academic, translator and biographer. He is the Meredith Howland Pyne professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University in the United States,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 Ho ...

( MacLehose Press) 2014 * Winner: Rachel Galvin for her translation of ''Hitting the Streets'' by

Raymond Queneau Raymond Auguste Queneau (; ; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Biography Queneau, the only child of Auguste Que ...

(

Carcanet Press Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom. Originally a student magazine devised by undergraduates collaborating between Oxford and Cambridge, it was refounded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was nam ...

) * Commended: Lulu Norman for her translation of ''Horses of God'' by Mahi Binebine (

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 make ...

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

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...

( CB Editions) * Commended:

Euan Cameron Euan Cameron is the Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the Reformation and religion in the Late Middle Ages The late Middle ...

for his translation of ''A Journey to Nowhere - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland'' by Jean-Paul Kauffman ( MacLehose Press) 2012 * Winner: Malcolm Imrie for his translation of ''Fear'' by Gabriel Chevallier (

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 Giles MacDonogh (born 1955) is a British writer, historian and translator. Life MacDonogh has worked as a journalist, most notably for the ''Financial Times'' (1988–2003), where he covered food, drink and a variety of ...

for his translation of ''Testicles'' by Blandine Vié (

Prospect Books Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent publishing company located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the humanities and social sciences. The company was formed in 1975. When Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Ki ...

) 2011 * Winner:

for ''Beside the Sea'' by

Véronique Olmi Véronique Olmi (born 1962) is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella ''Bord de Mer''. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen ...

(Peirene) * Runners-up: Sarah Ardizzone for her translation of Daniel Pennac’s ''School Blues'' ( Maclehose Press) and Frank Wynne for his translation of Boualem Sansal’s ''An Unfinished Business'' (

) 2010 * Winner: Susan Wicks for ''Cold Spring in Winter'' by Valérie Rouzeau (

Arc Publications Arc Publications, also known as Arc, is an independent publishing house in the UK, publishing contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the ...

) * Joint runners-up: Linda Coverdale for ''The Strategy of Antelopes'' by Jean Hatzfeld (Serpent’s Tail) and Lazer Lederhendler for ''Nikolski'' by Nicolas Dickner ( Portobello)

2000s

2009 * Winner: Polly McLean for ''Gross Margin'' by Laurent Quintreau (Harvill Secker) * Runner up: Barbara Mellor for ''Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France'' by Agnes Humbert (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 '' A French Nov ...

(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 t ...

and Lisa Appignanesi for ''The Year is '42'' by Nella Bielski (

) 2004 * Winner: Ian Monk for ''Monsieur Malaussene'' by Daniel Pennac (Harvill) 2003 * Winner: Linda Asher for ''Ignorance'' by

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera ( ; ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship ...

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

Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 2 March 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoding and Professor Hu Xiaoyu, were professors of medical sciences at West China Un ...

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

Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese people in France, Lebanese-born French"A ...

(Harvill) 2000 * Winner: Patricia Clancy for ''The Dark Room at Longwood'' by Jean-Paul Kauffmann (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 (1884, pub ...

(OUP) 1998 * Winner: Geoffrey Strachan for ''Le Testament Francais'' by Andreï Makine (Sceptre) 1997 * Winners: Janet Lloyd for ''The Spears of Twilight'' 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 first graduated in philosophy a ...

(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 (play), 'Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. ...

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

(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'' ...

(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 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 the Collège de Franc ...

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

Claude Simon Claude Eugène Henri Simon (; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. Biography Claude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar. His parents were French, an ...

(Calder)

1980s

1989 * Winner: Derek Mahon for ''Selected Poems'' by Philippe Jaccotet (Viking Penguin) 1988 * Winner: Robyn Marsack for ''The Scorpion-Fish'' by Nicolas Bouvier ( Carcanet) 1987 * Winner: Barbara Wright for ''Grabinoulor'' by Pierre Albert-Birot (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 father 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) ea ...

(Collins) and Richard Nice 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 influ ...

(

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

) 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 a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...

(

Verso ''Recto'' 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. In double-sided printing, each leaf h ...

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

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten. Personal life Sarraute wa ...

( 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 Paul Achille Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' (1955–79), and the un ...

(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 (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: People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter * Claude Debussy (1862–1918), ...

(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 (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, h ...

(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 world ...

(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

(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 (1 February 1925 – 7 February 2024) was a German-born French writer, sociologist and political scientist. Although his Jewish family had to move from Frankfurt to France in 1933, he focused on Franco-German cooperation after Wor ...

(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 (Collins) 1971 * Winner:

Maria Jolas Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was an American translator and pacifist, one of the founding members of Transition (literary journal), ''transition'' in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas. Life Jolas wa ...

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 Bernard Charles Henri Clavel (; 29 May 1923 – 5 October 2010) was a French writer. Clavel was born in Lons-le-Saunier. From a humble background, he was largely self-educated. He began working as a pastry cook apprentice when he was 14 years ...

(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 (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 a ...

(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 (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 Roger Vailland (; 16 October 1907 – 12 May 1965) was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Biography Vailland was born in Acy-en-Multien, Oise. His novels include the prize winning ''Drôle de jeu'' (1945), ''Les mauvais coups'' (194 ...

(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 ...

(Hart-Davis)

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