The Scott Moncrieff Prize was created in 1965 and is named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff. It is a yearly prize worth £3,000 for French-to-English translations. The prize is given to one or more translators each year for a complete book that the Translators Association considers to have "literary merit." The person who comes in second place receives £1,000. The prize is currently supported by the Institut Français du Royaume Uni. Only translations that are published for the first time in the United Kingdom are eligible for the prize.
Past supporters of the prize include the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.
Winners
2020 (awarded in 2021)
Geoffrey Strachan was awarded for translating The Archipelago of Another Life by Andreï Makine (MacLehose Press).
2019 (awarded in 2020)
2018 (awarded in 2019)
2017 (awarded in 2018)
2016 (awarded in 2017)
2015 (awarded in 2016)
Christopher Hampton was awarded for Art by Yasmina Reza (Faber and Faber).
James Kirkup was awarded for Painted Shadows by Jean Baptiste-Niel (Quartet).
Richard Nice was awarded for Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu (Routledge).
Richard Mayne was awarded for Memoirs (Collins).
David Hapgood was awarded for The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean-Francois Revel (Secker & Warburg).
Douglas Parmee was awarded for The Second World War by Henri Michel (Andre Deutsch).
Joanna Kilmartin was awarded for Scars on the Soul by Francoise Sagan (Andre Deutsch).