Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation is a literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom since 1996 to the translator of an outstanding work of fiction for young readers translated into English.

The award is given every two years, and was administered by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton University, and in 2007 was sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust and subsidised by the Arts Council of England. From 2008 the award has been administered by the English-Speaking Union.^[1]

Winners

2015 – Margaret Jull Costa for The Adventures of Shola, translated from Spanish; originally Basque language by Bernardo Atxaga
2013 – Howard Curtis for In the Sea there are Crocodiles, from the Italian of Fabio Geda^[2]
2011 – Martin Cleaver for Letters to Anyone and Everyone, from the Dutch of Toon Tellegen
2009 – Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams)^[3] for Toby Alone, from the French of Timothée de Fombelle^[4]
2007 – Anthea Bell for The Flowing Queen, from the German of Kai Meyer
2005 – Sarah Adams for Eye of the Wolf, from the French of Daniel Pennac
2003 – Anthea Bell for Where Were You Robert?, from German of Hans Magnus Enzensberger
2001 – Betsy Rosenberg for Duel, from the Hebrew of David Grossman
1999 – Patricia Crampton for The Final Journey, from the German of Gudrun Pausewang
1996 – Anthea Bell for A Dog's Life, translated from the German of Christine Nöstlinger

Multiple-award winners

Anthea Bell of Cambridge, England, won the award three times from 1996 to 2007. Sarah Ardizzone (formerly Sarah Adams)^[3] won the award in 2005 and 2009.

The American Library Association inaugurated its annual award for translated children's books in 1968, the Mildred L. Batchelder Award. It is conferred upon the publisher. Bell was the translator of four books that won Batchelder Awards from 1976 to 1995 and Patricia Crampton was the translator of the books that won in 1984 and 1987.^[5]

References

↑ English-Speaking Union
↑ English Speaking Union: Howard Curtis wins the 2013 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation
1 2 "Person: Ardizzone, Sarah". Katalog der Deutschen National Bibliothek. German National Library (DNB.de). Retrieved 2016-03-09.
↑ Marsh Christian Trust
↑ "Batchelder Award winners, 1968–Present". ALSC. American Library Association. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

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