# 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.

## Past winners

Source:

### 2023

* 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)

### 2022

* 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)

### 2021

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

### 2020

* 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)

### 2019

* 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)

### 2018

* 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)

### 2017

* 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)

### 2016

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

### 2015

* 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)

### 2014

* 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)

### 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 Andrés 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 Marías (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 de 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)