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Past Events
10-2-22
6.00pm
Society of Authors Zoom link
Buy any of the Shortlisted Books
6.00pm
Society of Authors Zoom link
Register to attend the online event
The prizes being awarded are:
The Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from Swedish
This prize will change from triennial to biennial in future years, thanks to a generous increase in funding from the Swedish Embassy.
The Goethe-Institut Award for translation from German
The Premio Valle Inclán Award for translation from Spanish
The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for translation from Arabic
The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from German
The Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation from French
TA First Translation (for first translation into English from any language)
The Vondel Prize for translation from Dutch or Flemish
Read the Shortlist Announcement
Buy any of the Shortlisted Books
For further information please contact Robyn Law in the SoA Prizes Team – prizes@societyofauthors.org
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS’ TRANSLATION PRIZES
The Society of Authors promotes and supports ten translation prizes, six of which will be presented in an online ceremony on Thursday 10 February 2022.
www.societyofauthors.org/prizes
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
The Society of Authors is the UK trade union for all types of writers, scriptwriters, illustrators and literary translators, at all stages of their careers. They have more than 11,800 members and have been advising individuals and speaking out for the profession for more than a century. In 2021, they have awarded more than £600,000 in prizes and grants for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and translation.
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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