# Czech State Award for Translation

The Czech State Award for Translation (Czech language: Státní cena za překladatelské dílo) is an award given by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The Czech State Award for Translation is awarded for the translation of a literary work from a foreign language into Czech. The prize consists of a certificate and 300,000 CZK Czech koruna. It is awarded each year on October 28, along with the Czech State Award for Literature.

## Laureates

| Year | Author | Awarded Work | Reference |
| 2023 | Jarka Vrbová | For her body of work of translation from the Norwegian language. |
| 2022 | Jiří Našinec | For translating Charles Nodier and Mircea Eliade and for popularization of Romanian literature. | |
| 2021 | Alena Morávková | For his body of work of Russian to Czech translation. | |
| 2020 | Blanka Stárková | | |
| 2019 | Anna Kareninová | | |
| 2018 | Helena Stachová | For her lifetime of work. | |
| 2017 | Eva Kondrysová | For her lifetime of work. | |
| 2016 | Pavel Dominik | For his translation of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor from English. (Czech: Ada, aneb Žár. ISBN 978-80-7432-657-8) | |
| 2015 | Hanuš Karlach | For his body of work of German to Czech translation to-date. | |
| 2014 | Jiří Pechar | For his lifetime of work. | |
| 2013 | Vratislav Slezák | For his lifetime work, taking into consideration his translations of Hermann Hesse. | - |
| 2012 | Vladimír Mikeš | For his lifetime of work. | - |
| 2011 | Martin Hilský | Translation work to-date and especially the translation into Czech of the complete works of William Shakespeare | |
| 2010 | Oldřich Král | For lifelong work in the field of translation theory. | - |
| 2009 | Miroslav Jindra | For his lifetime work, taking into account the translation of Leonard Cohen's The Book of Longing. (Czech: Kniha toužení. Prague: Argo 2008.) | - |
| 2008 | Jiří Stromšík | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2007 | Antonín Přidal | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2006 | František Fröhlich | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2005 | Pavla Lidmilová | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2004 | Dušan Zbavitel | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2003 | Dušan Karpatský | For his work in the field of literary translation. | - |
| 2002 | Jiří Pelán | For his work to-date in the field of artistic translation and for his translation from Italian for Básníci soumraku. Italská poezie pozdní secese Paseka, 2001. ISBN 80-7185-387-9. | - |
| 2001 | Jan Vladislav | For lifelong work in the field of artistic translation, taking into account his translations of Michelangelo Buonarroti's Oheň, jímž hořím. (Praha: Mladá fronta 1999) and Michel Butor's Histoire extraordinaire. Essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire (Czech translation:Podivuhodný příběh. Esej o jednom Baudelairově snu. Brno: Host 1998). | - |
| 2000 | Anna Valentová | For her work to-date and for her translation from Hungarian of Péter Nádas's Emlékiratok könyve (Czech: Kniha pamětí. Praha: Mladá fronta 1999.) | - |
| 1999 | Lumír Čivrný | For a lifetime significant translation work | - |
| 1998 | Jindřich Pokorný | For extensive and significant translation work | - |
| 1997 | Luba Pellarová and Rudolf Pellar | For a lifetime extensive and significant translation work | - |
| 1996 | Ludvík Kundera | For his extensive lifetime work and for his translations of Georg Trakl's Šebestián ve snu. (Třebíč: Arca JiMfa, 1995) and Gottfried Benn's Básně. (Praha: ERM 1995.) | |
| 1995 | Josef Hiršal | For his lifelong translation activities and for his translation of Johann Christian Günther's Krvavý rubín. (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1995.) | - |