Premio Valle-Inclán

The Premio Valle-Inclán is a literary translation prize. It is awarded by the Society of Authors for the best English translation of a work of Spanish literature. It is named after Ramón del Valle-Inclán. The prize money is GBP £3,000 and a runner-up is awarded £1,000.^[1]

The award is granted annually^[2] recognizing translations of full-length Spanish language works of literary merit and general interest published in the UK.^[3] The selection process often highlights the translator's skill in capturing the essence and complexity of the original Spanish text, whether the work is contemporary fiction, non-fiction, or poetry.^[3]

Source:^[1]

• Winner: Chris Andrews, Edith Grossman, and Alastair Reid for their collaborative translation of Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems by Álvaro Mutis.
• Runners-up: Kit Maude for his translation of the novel Cousins by Aurora Venturin.^[4]

Shortlist:

• Christina MacSweeney for her translation of Fury by Clyo Mendoza.
• Chris Andrews for You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi.
• Clayton Lehmann and Ángela Helmer for their translation of General History of the Indies by Francisco López de Gómara.

• Winner: William Rowe and Helen Dimos for a translation of Trilce. Translations and Glosses by César Vallejo (Veer Books, Crater Press)
• Rosalind Harvey for a translation of Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Shortlist:

• Jennifer Croft for a translation of Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez Daniell (Charco Press)
• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles for a translation of Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers by various authors (Dedalus Limited)
• Forrest Gander for a translation of It Must Be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho (Carcanet Press)
• Victor Meadowcroft for a translation of This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire (Oneworld Publications)

• Winner: Annie McDermott for a translation of Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate (Granta)
• Runner-up: Julia Sanches for a translation of Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández González (And Other Stories)

Shortlist:

• Chris Andrews for a translation of The Divorce by César Aira (And Other Stories)
• Annie McDermott for a translation of Brickmakers by Selva Almada (Charco Press)
• Hannah Kauders for a translation of Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa Ojeda (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion)
• Megan McDowell for a translation of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (Granta)

• Winner: Fionn Petch for a translation of A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti (Charco Press)^[5]
• Runner-up: Lisa Dillman for a translation of A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba (Granta)

Shortlist:^[6]

• Annie McDermott for a translation of Dead Girls by Selva Almada (Charco Press)
• Sophie Hughes for a translation of Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Christina MacSweeney for a translation of Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París (Charco Press)

• Winner: Katherine Silver for a translation of The Word of the Speechless by Julio Ramon Ribeyro (New York Review Books)
• Runner-up: Anne McLean for a translation of Lord of All the Dead by Javier Cercas (MacLehose Press)

Shortlist:

• Richard Gwyn for a translation of Impossible Loves by Darío Jaramillo (Carcanet Poetry)

• Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick for a translation of A Little Body are Many Parts by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Bloodaxe Books and the Poetry Translation Centre)
• Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes for a translation of Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas (Vintage, PRH)
• Megan McDowell for a translation of Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (Oneworld)

• Winner: Jessica Sequeira for a translation of Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo (Pushkin Press)
• Runner-up: Sophie Hughes for a translation of The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran (And Other Stories)

Shortlisted:

• Nick Caistor for a translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti (Penguin Classics)
• Charlotte Coombe for a translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo (Charco Press)
• William Gregory for a translation of The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays by Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Blanca Doménech, Victor Sánches Rodríguez, Vanessa Montford, and Julio Escalada (Oberon Books)

• Winner: Megan McDowell for Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (Atlantic)

• Runner-up: Daniel Hahn for In the Land of Giants by Gabi Martínez (Scribe)

Shortlisted:

• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles for Inventing Love by José Ovejero (Peter Owen Publishers);
• Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff for Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (Charco Press)

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes (Harvill Secker)
• Commendation: Rosalind Harvey for I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos (And Other Stories)

• Winner: Christina MacSweeney for The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Granta)

• Winner: Anne McLean for Outlaws by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury)
• Commendation: Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós (New York Review Books)

• Winner: Nick Caistor for An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza (MacLehose Press)
• Commendation: Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of The Infatuations by Javier Marías (Hamish Hamilton)

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

• 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)

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

• 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).

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)

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

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

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