Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

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University of Warwick, 9 Books

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is an annual award honouring works by female authors that have been translated into English and published by a UK- or Irish publisher. Only works authored by a woman are eligible, the gender of the translator is irrelevant.

Who votes: The prize is judged by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin, and Susan Bassnett.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
14232 Memoirs Of A Polar Bear Yoko Tawada 2011 German German
10656 Belladonna Daša Drndić 2012 Croatian Croatian
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
17152 Inventario Di Alcune Cose Perdute Judith Schalansky 2018 German German
17152 Osebol Marit Kapla 2019 Swedish Swedish
6442 Tomb Of Sand Geetanjali Shree 2018 Indian Hindi
17152 Your Wish Is My Command Deena Mohamed 2022 Unknown English
17152 Revelation Freshly Erupting Nelly Sachs German German