The Scott Moncrieff Prize, established in 1965, and named after the translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work deemed by the Translators Association to have "literary merit". The Prizes is currently sponsored by the Institut Français du Royaume Uni. Only translations first published in the United Kingdom are considered for the accolade. Sponsors of the prize have included the French Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy, and the Arts Council of England.

Winners

2020's

2023 Shortlisted: 2022 Shortlisted: 2021 Shortlisted: 2020 (presented 2021) Shortlisted: Geoffrey Strachan for a translation of The Archipelago of Another Life by Andreï Makine (MacLehose Press)

2010's

2019 (presented 2020) Shortlisted: 2018 (presented 2019) Shortlistees: 2017 (presented 2018) 2016 (presented 2017) 2015 (presented 2016) 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

2000s

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

1990s

1999 1998 1997 and Christopher Hampton for Art by Yasmina Reza (Faber and Faber) 1996 1995 1994 No Award 1993 1992 and James Kirkup for Painted Shadows by Jean Baptiste-Niel (Quartet) 1991 1990

1980s

1989 1988 1987 1986 and Richard Nice for Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu (Routledge) 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980

1970s

1979 and Richard Mayne for Memoirs (Collins) 1978 and David Hapgood for The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean-Francois Revel (Secker & Warburg) 1977 1976 and Douglas Parmee for The Second World War by Henri Michel (Andre Deutsch) 1975 and Joanna Kilmartin for Scars on the Soul by Francoise Sagan (Andre Deutsch) 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970

1960s

1969 1968 1967 1966 1965