The winner receives an award of EUR 1,000 and attendance at the Leipzig Book Fair, as well as the International Translators' meeting organised by the Literary Colloquium Berlin.
The competition is open to emerging translators of literature who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for a minimum of three years.
The 2025 competition is NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES.
The deadline for entries is 11 August, 2025.
The details can be found at the Society of Authors website
The winner of the Award for 2023 was
Rob Myatt for his translation of an excerpt from the novel
Hund, Wolf, Schakal by Behzad Karim Khani (Hanser Berlin,2022).
The runner-up was
Fiona Graham.
Further information:
prizes@societyofauthors.org
Website:
Society of Authors
