Scott Moncrieff Prize
The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade.
Sponsors of the prize include the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Edward Hyams | Régine Pernoud | Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses |
| Humphrey Hare | Maurice Druon | Memoirs of Zeus | |
| 1966 | Barbara Bray | Henri Fluchère | Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick |
| Peter Wiles | Roger Vailland | A Young Trout | |
| 1967 | John & Doreen Weightman | Jean Guéhenno | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 1968 | Jean Stewart | Jacques Berque | French North Africa: The Maghrib Between Two World Wars |
| 1969 | Terence Kilmartin | André Malraux | Anti-Memoirs |
| Henry de Montherlant | The Girls | ||
| 1970 | W.G. Corp | Bernard Clavel | The Spaniard |
| Richard Barry | André Beaufre | The Suez Expedition 1956 | |
| Elaine P. Halperin | Michel Bernanos | The Other Side of the Mountain | |
| 1971 | Maria Jolas | Nathalie Sarraute | Between Life and Death |
| 1972 | Paul Stephenson | Alfred Grosser | Germany in Our Time: A Political History of the Postwar Years |
| 1973 | Barbara Bray | Michel Tournier | The Erl-King |
| 1974 | John & Doreen Weightman | Claude Lévi-Strauss | From Honey to Ashes |
| Tristes Tropiques | |||
| 1975 | D. McN. Lockie | Victor-Lucien Tapié | France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu |
| Joanna Kilmartin | Françoise Sagan | Scars on the Soul | |
| 1976 | Brian Pearce | Marcel Liebman | Leninism Under Lenin |
| Douglas Parmee | Henri Michel | The Second World War | |
| 1977 | Peter Wait | Georges Dupeux | French Society 1789-1970 |
| 1978 | Janet Lloyd | Marcel Detienne | The Gardens of Adonis |
| David Hapgood | Jean-François Revel | The Totalitarian Temptation | |
| 1979 | John & Doreen Weightman | Claude Lévi-Strauss | The Origin of Table Manners |
| Richard Mayne | Jean Monnet | Memoirs | |
| 1980 | Brian Pearce | Roland Mousnier | The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789 |
| 1981 | Paul Falla | Claude Nicolet | The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome |
| 1982 | Anne Carter | Michel Tournier | Gemini |
| 1983 | Sian Reynolds | Fernand Braudel | The Wheels of Commerce |
| 1984 | Roy Harris | Ferdinand de Saussure | Course in General Linguistics |
| 1985 | Quintin Hoare | Jean-Paul Sartre | War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War |
| 1986 | Barbara Bray | Marguerite Duras | The Lover |
| Richard Nice | Pierre Bourdieu | Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | |
| 1987 | Barbara Wright | Pierre Albert-Birot | Grabinoulor |
| 1988 | Robyn Marsack | Nicolas Bouvier | The Scorpion Fish |
| 1989 | Derek Mahon | Philippe Jaccottet | Selected Poems |
| 1990 | Beryl & John Fletcher | Claude Simon | The Georgics |
| 1991 | Brian Pearce | Paul Veyne | Bread and Circuses |
| 1992 | Barbara Wright | Michel Tournier | The Midnight Love Feast |
| James Kirkup | Jean-Baptiste Niel | Painted Shadows | |
| 1993 | Christine Donougher | Sylvie Germain | The Book of Nights |
| 1994 | | ||
| 1995 | Gilbert Adair | Georges Perec | A Void |
| 1996 | David Coward | Albert Cohen | Belle du Seigneur |
| 1997 | Janet Lloyd | Philippe Descola | Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle |
| Christopher Hampton | Yasmina Reza | 'Art' | |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Strachan | Andreï Makine | Le Testament Français |
| 1999 | Margaret Mauldon | Joris-Karl Huysmans | Against Nature |
| 2000 | Patricia Clancy | Jean-Paul Kauffmann | The Dark Room at Longwood |
| 2001 | Barbara Bray | Amin Maalouf | On Identity |
| 2002 | Ina Rilke | Dai Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| 2003 | Linda Asher | Milan Kundera | Ignorance |
| 2004 | Ian Monk | Daniel Pennac | Monsieur Malaussène |
| 2005 | John Berger & Lisa Appignanesi | Nella Bielski | The Year Is '42 |
| 2006 | Linda Coverdale | Jean Hatzfeld | A Time for Machetes |
| 2007 | Sarah Adams | Faïza Guène | Just Like Tomorrow |
| 2008 | Frank Wynne | Frédéric Beigbeder | Holiday in a Coma |
| Love Lasts Three Years | |||
| 2009 | Polly McLean | Laurent Quintreau | Gross Margin |
| 2010 | Susan Wicks | Valérie Rouzeau | Cold Spring in Winter |
| 2011 | Adriana Hunter | Veronique Olmi | Beside the Sea |
| 2012 | Malcolm Imrie | Gabriel Chevallier | Fear |
| 2013 | Beverley Bie Brahic | Guillaume Apollinaire | The Little Auto |
| 2014 | Rachel Galvin | Raymond Queneau | Hitting the Streets |
| 2015 | Frank Wynne | Boualem Sansal | Harraga |
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