Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.^[1] The first prize was awarded in 1999.^[2] The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Weidenfeld and by New College, The Queen's College and St Anne's College, Oxford.^[1]

Source:^[3]

• Joel Agee for Friedrich Durrenmatt, Selected Writings (University of Chicago Press)
• Anthea Bell for Eva Menasse, Vienna (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
• Robin Kirkpatrick for Dante, Inferno (Penguin)
• Sverre Lyngstad for Dag Solstad, Shyness and Dignity (Harvill Secker)
• Sandra Smith for Irène Némirovsky, Suite française (Chatto and Windus)

• Richard Dove for Friederike Mayröcker, Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Carcanet)
• Jamie McKendrick for Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin)
• Mike Mitchell for Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges (Dedalus)
• Natasha Randall for Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (Vintage)
• Ina Rilke for Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles (Harvill Secker)

• David Colmer for Gerbrand Bakker, The Twin
• Sarah Death for Alexander Ahndoril, The Director
• Christine Donougher for Sylvie Germain, Magnus
• Michael Hofmann for Fred Wander, The Seventh Well
• Marek Tomin for Emil Hakl, Of Kids and Parents

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

• Anne McLean for Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Secret History of Costaguana (Bloomsbury)
• Christopher Middleton for Jean Follain, 130 Poems (Anvil Press)
• Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Anna Aslanyan for Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows (Harvill Secker)
• Tom Geddes for Per Wästberg, The Journey of Anders Sparrman (Granta)
• Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers for Theodor Fontane, No Way Back (Angel Books)

• John Ashbery for Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations (Carcanet)
• Margaret Jull Costa for Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France (Harvill Secker)
• Howard Curtis for Filippo Bologna, How I Lost the War (Pushkin)
• Rosalind Harvey for Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole (And Other Stories)
• Martin McLaughlin for Italo Calvino, Into the War (Penguin)

• Tess Lewis for Lukas Bärfuss, One Hundred Days (Granta)
• Louise B. Popkin for Mario Benedetti, Witness (White Pine Press)
• Sam Taylor for Laurent Binet, HHhH (Harvill Secker)
• Frank Wynne for Alonso Cueto, The Blue Hour (Heinemann)
• Mike Mitchell for Jean-Pierre Ohl, The Lairds of Cromarty (Dedalus)

• Anthea Bell for Eugen Ruge, In Times of Fading Light (Faber)
• Isabel Fargo Cole for Franz Fühmann, The Jew Car (Seagull Books)
• David Homel for Dany Laferrière, The Enigma of the Return (MacLehose Press)
• Peter Daniels for Vladislav Khodasevich, Selected Poems (Angel Classics)
• Alastair McEwen for Andrea Bajani, Every Promise (Maclehose Press)
• Edward Gauvin for Jean Ferry, The Conductor and Other Tales (Wakefield Press)
• Mira Rosenthal for Tomasz Różycki, Colonies (Zephyr Press)

• Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia for Andrés Neuman, Talking to Ourselves (Pushkin Press)
• Euan Cameron for Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club (Atlantic Books)
• Will Firth for Aleksandar Gatalica, The Great War (Istros Books)
• Anne Stokes for Sarah Kirsch, Ice Roses (Carcanet Press)
• Geoffrey Strachan for Jérôme Ferrari, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (MacLehose Press)
• Stefan Tobler for Clarice Lispector, Água Viva (Penguin Books)
• Paul Vincent for Erwin Mortier, While the Gods were Sleeping (Pushkin Press)

• John Cullen for Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation (Oneworld)
• Stephen Pearl for Ivan Goncharov, The Same Old Story (Alma Classics)
• Don Bartlett for Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle (Harvill Secker)
• Shaun Whiteside for Charles Lewinsky, Melnitz (Atlantic Books)
• Lola M. Rogers for Sofi Oksanen, When the Doves Disappeared (Atlantic Books)
• Lisa C. Hayden for Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus (Oneworld)

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

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

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

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

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

The shortlist was announced on 18 May.^[5]

• Stuart Bell's translation of Bird Me by Édith Azam [fr] – French, the87 press
• Jen Calleja's translation of The Liquid Land by Raphaela Edelbauer [de] – 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

• Bernard Adams's translation of The Hangman's House by Andrea Tompa [hu] – Hungarian, Seagull Books.
• Jack Bevan's translation of the Complete Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo – Italian, Carcanet
• Alexandra Büchler's translation of Dream of a Journey by Kateřina Rudčenková – Czech, Parthian
• John Litell's translation of Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren – Swedish, Peirene
• Janet Livingstone's translation of Boat Number Five by Monika Kompaníková – Slovak, Seagull Books
• Julia Sanches's translation of Permafrost by Eva Baltasar – Catalan, And Other Stories
• Damion Searls's translation of A New Name by Jon Fosse – Norwegian, Fitzcarraldo
• Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Night As It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic – French, Faber

The 2023 shortlist was announced on 18 May.^[6]

• Liliana Corobca, The Censor's Notebook (Seven Stories) translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure
• Irene Solà, When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Granta) translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
• Alejandro Zambra, Chilean Poet (Granta) translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Megan McDowell
• Yevgenia Belorusets, Lucky Breaks (Pushkin) translated from the Russian (Ukraine) by Eugene Ostashevsky
• Harald Voetmann [da], Awake (Lolli) translated from the Danish by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen
• Fatima Daas, The Last One (HopeRoad) translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
• Manuel Astur, Of Saints and Miracles (Peirene) translated from the Spanish by Claire Wadie
• Barbara Sadurska [pl], The Map (Terra Librorum) translated from the Polish by Kate Webster

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