Catch up with the 2023 Translation Prizes

The winners share the stage (Photograph © Adrian Pope)
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Jasmine Scott

Jasmine joined the SoA in January 2023. She leads the Communications team and sets communications strategy for the whole organisation. Jasmine also manages the production of the SoA’s journal, The Author.
If you missed the 2023 Translation Prizes award ceremony, you can watch the live stream, find out the winners and see photographs from the event at The British Library

On Wednesday 7 February, we celebrated the SoA’s annual Translation Prizes at the British Library Knowledge Centre. Nine literary translators and one editor shared a prize fund of £28,000.

Hosted by Robyn Law, Head of Fundraising, Grants and Prizes at the SoA, the ceremony saw Alison Watts become the first winner of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize for translation from Japanese.

For a full list of winners, check out our written report of the evening’s proceedings here.

You can purchase the winning and shortlisted books at Bookshop.org. A contribution from every purchase goes towards the Society of Authors’ Contingency Fund to help authors in need

Many thanks to everyone who joined us – in-venue or online – for helping to make the evening so special.


Catch-up with the event recording


Watch interviews

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize winner Alison Watts
Goethe-Institut winner Rob Myatt
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize judge Sarah Enany
Translators Association Co-Chair Ian Giles

See the photos


Read the booklet

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