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

Literary award

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

 for French to English translation

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

, 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

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 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 Edward Hyams Edward Hyams was a British writer. Works included Soil and Civilisation, a biography of Proudhon, and Terrorists and Terrorism.He won a prize for his translation of Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses.- External links :*...	Régine Pernoud Régine Pernoud Régine Pernoud was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc.- Career :...	Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses is a translation of a book about Joan of Arc by Régine Pernoud. The translator, Edward Hyams, won the 1965 Scott Moncrieff Prize for his work on this book...
	Humphrey Hare	Maurice Druon Maurice Druon Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française.Born in Paris, France, Druon was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he translated the Chant des Partisans, a French Resistance anthem of World War II, with music and words originally by Anna Marly.In 1948...	Memoirs of Zeus
1966	Barbara Bray Barbara Bray Barbara Bray was a British translator and critic.An identical twin , she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian...	Henri Fluchère Henri Fluchère Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the...	Laurence Sterne: From Tristram to Yorick
	Peter Wiles	Roger Vailland Roger Vailland Roger Vailland was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter.Vailland's novels include Drôle de jeu , Les mauvais coups , Un jeune homme seul , 325 000 francs , and La loi , winner of the Prix Goncourt...	A Young Trout
1967	John & Doreen Weightman	Jean Guéhenno Jean Guéhenno Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno, known as Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist, writer and literary critic....	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1968	Jean Stewart Jean Stewart Jean Hurring , is a former swimmer from New Zealand. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, 1952 and 1956...	Jacques Berque Jacques Berque Jacques Augustin Berque was a French Islamic scholar and sociologist. His expertise was the decolonisation of Algeria and Morocco.-Biography:...	French North Africa: The Maghrib Between Two World Wars
1969	Terence Kilmartin Terence Kilmartin Terence Kilmartin CBE was an Irish translator who served as the literary editor of The Observer between 1952 and 1986. The most well-known and popular of his translations is his 1981 revision of C. K...	André Malraux André Malraux André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...	Anti-Memoirs
		Henry de Montherlant Henry de Montherlant Henry de Montherlant or Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist and one of the leading French dramatists of the twentieth century.- Works :...	The Girls
1970	W.G. Corp	Bernard Clavel Bernard Clavel Bernard Charles Henri Clavel 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 old. He later had several jobs until he began working as a journalist in the 1950s...	The Spaniard
	Richard Barry Richard Barry Richard Barry is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. A publican before entering politics, he first stood for election in the Cork East constituency at the 1951 general election, but was unsuccessful. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at a by-election in 1953 following the death of the Labour...	André Beaufre André Beaufre André Beaufre was a French general. Beaufre ended World War II with the rank of colonel....	The Suez Expedition 1956
	Elaine P. Halperin	Michel Bernanos	The Other Side of the Mountain
1971	Maria Jolas Maria Jolas Maria Jolas , born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas....	Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute was a French lawyer and writer of Russian Jewish origin.-Life:Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo , 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 , and, following...	Between Life and Death
1972	Paul Stephenson Paul Stephenson Paul Stephenson is a former professional footballer who played as a winger/ central midfielder for Newcastle United, Millwall, Gillingham, Brentford and York City before he ended his career with Hartlepool United. During his footballing career he made a combined total of over 500 appearances...	Alfred Grosser Alfred Grosser Alfred Grosser is a German-French writer, sociologist and political scientist. He is known for his contribution to the Franco-German cooperation after World War II and for criticising Israel.- Early life:...	Germany in Our Time: A Political History of the Postwar Years
1973	Barbara Bray Barbara Bray Barbara Bray was a British translator and critic.An identical twin , she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian...	Michel Tournier Michel Tournier Michel Tournier is a French writer.His works are highly considered and have won important 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 1970...	The Erl-King
1974	John & Doreen Weightman	Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....	From Honey to Ashes
			Tristes Tropiques
1975	D. McN. Lockie	Victor-L. Tapié	France in the Age of Louis XIII & Richelieu
	Joanna Kilmartin	Françoise Sagan Françoise Sagan Françoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...	Scars on the Soul
1976	Brian Pearce Brian Pearce Brian Leonard Pearce was a British Marxist politician, historian, and translator.-Biography:Brian Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy,...	Mercel Liebman	Leninism Under Lenin
	Douglas Parmee	Henri Michel Henri Michel (historian) Henri Michel is a French historian, who studied the Second World War. He created the Comité d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale and the Revue d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale....	The Second World War
1977	Peter Wait	George Dupeux	French Society 1789-1970
1978	Janet Lloyd	Marcel Detienne Marcel Detienne Marcel Detienne is a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He is Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L...	The Gardens of Adonis
	David Hapgood	Jean-François Revel Jean-François Revel Jean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française from June 1998...	The Totalitarian Temptation
1979	John & Doreen Weightman	Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....	The Origin of Table Manners
	Richard Mayne	Jean Monnet Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity and is regarded as one of its founding fathers...	Memoirs
1980	Brian Pearce Brian Pearce Brian Leonard Pearce was a British Marxist politician, historian, and translator.-Biography:Brian Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy,...	Roland Mousnier Roland Mousnier Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.-Life:...	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 Michel Tournier Michel Tournier is a French writer.His works are highly considered and have won important 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 1970...	Gemini
1983	Sian Reynolds	Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...	The Wheels of Commerce
1984	Roy Harris Roy Harris (linguist) Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston and Paris and visiting fellowships at universities in South Africa and Australia, and at the Indian Institute...	Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics...	Course in General Linguistics Course in General Linguistics Course in General Linguistics is an influential book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye that is based on notes taken from Ferdinand de Saussure's lectures at the University of Geneva between the years 1906 and 1911...
1985	Quintin Hoare	Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...	War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War
1986	Barbara Bray Barbara Bray Barbara Bray was a British translator and critic.An identical twin , she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian...	Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...	The Lover
	Richard Nice	Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...	Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
1987	Barbara Wright Barbara Wright Barbara Wright was an English translator of modern French literature.Wright, born in Worthing, studied music and art in Paris in the years before World War II...	Pierre Albert-Birot Pierre Albert-Birot Pierre Albert-Birot was a French avant-garde author.Born in Angoulôme, he moved to Paris in 1894. There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong....	Grabinoulor
1988	Robyn Marsack	Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier was a 20th-century Swiss traveller and writer as well as an iconographer and photographer.-Life:Bouvier was born at Grand-Lancy near Geneva, the youngest of three children...	The Scorpion Fish
1989	Derek Mahon	Philippe Jaccottet Philippe Jaccottet Philippe Jaccottet is a poet and translator who publishes in French.After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris. In 1953, came to live in the town of Grignan in Provence...	Selected Poems
1990	Beryl & John Fletcher	Claude Simon Claude Simon Claude Simon was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France....	The Georgics
1991	Brian Pearce Brian Pearce Brian Leonard Pearce was a British Marxist politician, historian, and translator.-Biography:Brian Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy,...	Paul Veyne Paul Veyne Paul Veyne, born 13 June 1930 in Aix-en-Provence, is a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist on Ancient Rome. A former student of the École normale supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he is now honorary professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:From an ordinary...	Bread and Circuses
1992	Barbara Wright Barbara Wright Barbara Wright was an English translator of modern French literature.Wright, born in Worthing, studied music and art in Paris in the years before World War II...	Michel Tournier Michel Tournier Michel Tournier is a French writer.His works are highly considered and have won important 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 1970...	The Midnight Love Feast
	James Kirkup James Kirkup James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at South Shields Secondary School and Durham University. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays...	Jean Baptiste-Niel	Painted Shadows
1993	Christine Donougher	Sylvie Germain Sylvie Germain -Early life and education:During her childhood, with her three brothers and sisters, she moved from city to city, depending on the assignments her sub-prefect father received....	The Book of Nights
1994	No award given
1995	Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec...	Georges Perec Georges Perec Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...	A Void
1996	David Coward	Albert Cohen Albert Cohen Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization...	Belle du Seigneur
1997	Janet Lloyd	Philippe Descola Philippe Descola Philippe Descola is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples.- Background :He started with an interest in philosophy and later became a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss. His ethnographic studies in the Amazon region began in 1976 and was funded by...	Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
	Christopher Hampton Christopher Hampton Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...	Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...	'Art' 'Art' (play) ‘Art’ is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End on 15 October 1996, starring Albert Finney. It played on Broadway in New York...
1998	Geoffrey Strachan	Andreï Makine Andreï Makine Andreï Makine is a Russian-born French author. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis.-Biography:Andreï Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet...	Le Testament Français
1999	Margaret Mauldon	Joris-Karl Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans . He is most famous for the novel À rebours...	Against Nature À rebours À rebours is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans...
2000	Patricia Clancy	Jean-Paul Kauffmann	The Dark Room at Longwood
2001	Barbara Bray Barbara Bray Barbara Bray was a British translator and critic.An identical twin , she was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read English, with papers in French and Italian...	Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios...	On Identity
2002	Ina Rilke	Dai Sijie Dai Sijie Dai Sijie is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.-Biography:Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his...	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001. It is the author's first published novel. Its original French title is Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise...
2003	Linda Asher	Milan Kundera Milan Kundera Milan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...	Ignorance
2004	Ian Monk Ian Monk Ian Monk is a British writer and translator, based in Lille, France.-Biography:Since 1998, he has been a member of the French writing group Oulipo. Among his works in English are the books, Family Archaeology and Other Poems and Writings for the Oulipo...	Daniel Pennac Daniel Pennac Daniel Pennac is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.After studying in Nice he became a teacher...	Monsieur Malaussène
2005	John Berger John Berger John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...  & Lisa Appignanesi Lisa Appignanesi Lisa Appignanesi is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is president of the writers’ organization English PEN. Her latest book is All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion...	Nella Bielski	The Year Is '42
2006	Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale Linda Coverdale 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 Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben...	Jean Hatzfeld	A Time for Machetes
2007	Sarah Adams	Faïza Guène Faïza Guène Faïza Guène is a French writer and director. Born in Bobigny, France in 1985 to parents of Algerian origin she is best known for her two novels, Kiffe kiffe demain and Du rêve pour les oufs. She has also directed several short films, including Rien que des mots .Guène grew up in Pantin, in the...	Just Like Tomorrow
2008	Frank Wynne Frank Wynne Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator and writer.Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, he worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at Deadline magazine . He worked for a time at AOL before becoming a literary translator...	Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer and literary critic. 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 français...	Holiday in a Coma
			Love Lasts Three Years
2009	Polly McLean	Laurent Quintreau	Gross Margin
2010	Susan Wicks Susan Wicks Susan Wicks 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....	Valérie Rouzeau	Cold Spring in Winter