Premio Valle-Inclán

Past winners

2019 (presented 2020)

• Winner: Jessica Sequeira for a translation of Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
• Runner-Up: Sophie Hughes for a translation of The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran

• Nick Caistor for a translation of Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
• Charlotte Coombe for a translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo
• William Gregory for a translation of The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays by Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Blanca Doménech, Victor Sánches Rodríguez, Vanessa Montford, and Julio Escalada

  2018 (presented 2019)

• Winner: Megan McDowell for Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
• Runner-up: Daniel Hahn for In the Land of Giants by Gabi Martínez

• Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles for Inventing Love by José Ovejero ;
• Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff for Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz

  2017 (presented 2018)

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes
• Commendation: Rosalind Harvey for I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos

  2016 (presented 2017)

• Winner: Christina MacSweeney for The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

  2015 (presented 2016)

• Winner: Anne McLean for Outlaws by Javier Cercas

  2014

• Winner: Nick Caistor for An Englishman in Madrid, by Eduardo Mendoza

  2013

• Winner: Frank Wynne for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
• Runner-up: Nick Caistor and Lorenza García for Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman
• Runner-up: Anne McLean for The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

  2012

• Winner: Peter Bush for Exiled from Almost Everywhere by Juan Goytisolo
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga

  2011

• Winner: Frank Wynne for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
• Runner-up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka

  2010

• Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías
• Christopher Johnson for the Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo.

  2009

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
• Runner up: Edith Grossman for Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes

  2008

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Past by Alan Pauls
• John Dent-Young for Selected Poems by Luis de Góngora

  2007

• Winner: Nick Caistor for The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón
• Runner up: John Cullen for Lies by Enrique de Hériz

  2006

• Winner: Margaret Jull Costa for Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marias
• Runner up: Sonia Soto for The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez

  2005

• Winner: Chris Andrews for Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
• Runner up: Margaret Jull Costa for The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías

  2004

• Winner: Anne McLean for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas

  2003

• Winner: Sam Richard for Not Only Fire by Benjamin Prado

  2002

• Winner: John D. Rutherford for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

  2001

• Winner: Timothy Adès for Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes
• Runner up: Edith Grossman for The Messenger by Mayra Montero

  2000

• Winner: Sonia Soto for Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Muñoz Molina
• Runner up: Margaret Sayers Peden for Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

  1999

• Winner: Don Share for I Have Lots of Heart by Miguel Hernández

  1997

• Winner: Peter Bush for The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo