Premio Valle-Inclán

The Premio Valle-Inclán is a literary translation prize. It is awarded by the Society of Authors (London) for the best English translation of a work of Spanish literature. It is named after Ramón del Valle-Inclán. The prize money is GBP 2000.^[1]

Past winners

2015

• Winner: Anne McLean for Outlaws by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury)

2014

• Winner: Nick Caistor for An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza (MacLehose Press)

2013

• Winner: Frank Wynne for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (Heinemann)
• Runner-up: Nick Caistor and Lorenza García for Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman (Pushkin Press)
• Runner-up: Anne McLean for The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bloomsbury)

2012

• Winner: Peter Bush for Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga (Harvill Secker)

2011

• Winner: Frank Wynne for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras (Atlantic)
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Maclehose Press)

2010

• Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías (Chatto)
• Christopher Johnson for the Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo (University of Chicago Press).

2009

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga (Harvill Secker)
• Runner up: Edith Grossman for Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes (Bloomsbury)

2008

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Past by Alan Pauls (Harvill Secker)
• John Dent-Young for Selected Poems by Luis de Góngora (The University of Chicago Press)

2007

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón (Harvill Secker/Alfaguara)
• Runner up: John Cullen for Lies by Enrique de Hériz (Weidenfeld/Edhasa)

2006

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marias (Chatto & Windus)
• Runner up: Sonia Soto for The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez (Abacus)

2005

• Winner: Chris Andrews for Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño (Harvill)
• Runner up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías (Harvill)

2004

• Winner: Anne McLean for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury)

2003

• Winner: Sam Richard for Not Only Fire by Benjamin Prado (Faber and Faber)

2002

• Winner: John D. Rutherford for Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (Penguin)
• Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende (Flamingo)

2001

• Winner: Timothy Adès for Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes (Edinburgh University Press)
• Runner up: Edith Grossman for The Messenger by Mayra Montero (Harvill)

2000

• Winner: Sonia Soto for Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Granta)
• Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (Flamingo)

1999

• Winner: Don Share for I Have Lots of Heart by Miguel Hernández (Bloodaxe)

1997

• Winner: Peter Bush for The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo (Faber)

References