Past winners

2019 (presented in 2020)
Winner: Michele Hutchison for a translation of Stage Four by Sander Kollaard (Amazon Crossing)
Runner-up: David Doherty for a translation of Monte Carlo by Peter Terrin (MacLehose Press)
Shortlisted:
Antoinette Fawcett for a translation of Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer (Pushkin Press)
Nancy Forest-Flier for a translation of The Story of Shit by Midas Dekkers (Text Publishing)

2017 (presented 2018)
Winner: David McKay for his translation of War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Harvill Secker)
Commended: David Doherty for his translations of The Dutch Maiden by Marente de Moor and You Have To Love by Jaap Robben (World Editions).

2015 (presented 2016)
Winners:
Donald Gardner for his translation of In Those Days by Remco Campert (Shoestring Press) and
Laura Watkinson for her translation of The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (Pushkin Press) 
Commended: Sam Garrett for his translation of Tirza by Arnon Grunber (Open Letter) 

2013
Winner: David Colmer for The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst (Portobello) 
Commended: Ina Rilke for The Black Lake by Hella S. Haasse (Portobello)
Commended: Johanna W. Prins and Johanna H. Prins for Mother Number Zero by Marjolijn Hof (House of Anansi)

2011
Winner: Paul Vincent for My Little War by Louis Paul Boon (Dalkey Archive Press)
Runner-up: David Colmer for The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten (Scribe Publications)

2009
Winner: Sam Garrett for Ararat: In Search of the Mythical Mountain by Frank Westerman (Harvill Secker)
Runner Up: Francis Jones for What It Is: Selected Poems by Esther Jansma (Bloodaxe Books)

2007
Winner: Susan Massotty for My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah (Canongate)
Runner-up: Sherry Marx-Macdonald for Daalder’s Chocolates by Philibert Schogt (Thunder’s Mouth Press)

2005
Winner: Diane Webb for Colors Demonic & Devine: Shades of Meaning in the Middle Ages & After by Herman Pleij (Columbia University Press)

2003
Winner: Sam Garrett for The Rider by Tim Krabbe (Bloomsbury)
Runner up: Susan Massotty for All Souls’ Day by Cees Nooteboom (Picador)

2001
Winner: Hester Velmans for A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein (Doubleday)
Highly commended: Paul Vincent for Metaphors of Memory by Douwe Draaisma (Cambridge University Press)
Highly commended: Stacey Knecht for Desire by Hugo Claus (Viking)
Highly commended: Sherry Marx-Macdonald for Darwin’s Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt (MIT Press)

1999
Winner: Ina Rilke for Roads to Santiago by Cees Noteboom (Harvill/Harcourt Brace) and The Virtuosoby Margriet de Moor (Picador)
Highly commended: Sam Garrett for The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet) and Mali Blues by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet)

1996
Winner: Stacey Knecht for The Great Longing by Marcel Möring (Flamingo)
Highly commended: Noel Clark for Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel (Absolute Press)