TA First Translation Prize

About the prize

Winners and Shortlistees

'''2019'''

• Sarah Booker and Lauren Rosemary Hook for a translation of The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza Translated from Spanish.
• Natascha Bruce and Jeremy Tiang for a translation of Lonely Face by Yeng Pway Ngon. Translated from Chinese.
• Ellen Jones, Fionn Petch and Carolina Orloff for a translation of Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes. Translated from Spanish.
• William Spence and Tomasz Hoskins for a translation of The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China by XinRan Xue. Translated from Mandarin.

  2018

• Gini Alhadeff for her translation of I Am the Brother of XX edited by Barbara Epler and originally written by Fleur Jaeggy in Italian
• Fionn Petch for his translation of Fireflies edited by Annie McDermott and originally written by Luis Sagasti in Spanish
• Alex Valente for his translation of Can You Hear Me? edited by Federico Andornino and originally written by Elena Varvello in Italian

  2017

• Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, edited by Cécile Menon and Angeline Rothermundt
• Second-hand Time, by Svetlana Alexievich, translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich, edited by Jacques Testard
• Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg, translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak, edited by Max Porter and Ka Bradley.
• The Sad Part Was, by Prabda Yoon, translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul, edited by Deborah Smith
• The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, edited by Sal Robinson, Taylor Sperry and Željka Marošević
• Notes on a Thesis by Tiphaine Rivière, translated from the French by Francesca Barrie, edited by Clare Bullock