Receive Our Newsletter
For news of readings, events and new titles.
On 24 November the Shortlist of this year's Translation Prize will be announced. Full details of all fourteen entries are below. We are looking forward to learning what the judges – Paul Starkey (Chair), Justine Jordan, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Omar Al-Qattan – have to say about them and their selection of the Shortlist.
In the fifteenth year of the prize there are 14 entries, comprising 12 novels, one collection of short stories and one poetry collection. The entries are listed by title in alphabetical order of translator, or first translator listed when more than one. There are 12 translators, seven of whom are women. Nine different publishing houses have entered their titles.
The four judges will initially start with PDF versions of the entries, that is, until the working from home restrictions are lifted and the administrators of the prize can get back to their office at the Society of Authors. At that point they will despatch the books that arrived before the lockdown. The rest of the entries will be despatched as and when they arrive.
The translation prizes administered by the Society of Authors