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Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

Biennial

Sponsor: The Marsh Christian Trust

Administered by:
The National Centre for Research into Children’s Literature
Digby Stuart College
University of Surrey Roehampton
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PU
tel: 020 8392 3346
email: NCRCL@roehampton.ac.uk

Awarded to the best translation of a children’s book, by a British translator, from a foreign language into English, and published in the UK by a British publisher. Submissions are accepted from publishers for books produced for readers from four to sixteen years of age. The award is made to the translator.

Prize: £750

Winner announced: January

Most Recent Winner

2006 Kei Meyer's translation from German of The Flowing Queen

Past Winners

2004 Sarah Adams' translation from French of Daniel Pennac's "Eye of the Wolf". (Walker Books)

2002 Anthea Bell's translation from the German of Hans Magnus Enzeusberget's "Where were you Robert?" Puffin

2000 Betsy Rosenberg for the translation from Hebrew of Duel by David Grossman (Bloomsbury)

1998
Patricia Crampton (author: Gudrun Pausewang) The Final Journey (Viking)

1990-1996
Anthea Bell (author: Christine Nostlinger) A Dog’s Life (Andersen Press)