John Florio Prize for Italian TranslationWinner

Given by Society of Authors

Other Names: John Florio Prize
48 Works 9,280 Books 169 Reviews ½ 3.8

The John Florio Prize is a biennial award for translations into English of full length Italian works of literary merit and general interest. The winner is awarded £3,000 and a runner-up is

show more awarded £1,000.

Established in 1963 and named for the writer-translator John Florio, who lived in London 1555-1625, the prize is generously sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Society of Authors. show less

Stages:
All, Winner (48), Commended (4), Runner-Up (7), Shortlist (10)
Years:
All, 2022 (1), 2020 (1), 2018 (1), 2016 (1), 2014 (1), 2012 (1), 2010 (1), 2008 (1), 2006 (1), 2004 (1), 2002 (2), 2000 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1), 1994 (1), 1992 (2), 1990 (2), 1988 (1), 1986 (1), 1984 (1), 1982 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (2), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1968 (2), 1967 (1), 1966 (2), 1965 (1), 1964 (3), 1963 (2)

Winner 48

WorkYear
Il mio Carso by Scipio Slataper
Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda
2022
Trick by Domenico Starnone
Jhumpa Lahiri
2020
I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
Gini Alhadeff
2018
Archipelago by Antonella Anedda
Jamie McKendrick
2016
Memoria del vuoto by Marcello Fois
Patrick Creagh
2014
Scent of a Woman by Giovanni Arpino
Anne Milano Appel
2012
The Embrace by Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick
2010
The Greener Meadow by Luciano Erba
Peter Robinson
2008
Kuraj by Silvia Di Natale
Carol O’Sullivan and Martin Thom
2006
Il ritorno : diario di una missione in Afghanistan by Edoardo Albinati
Howard Curtis
2004
Senior service by Carlo Feltrinelli
Alastair McEwen
2002
Prince of the Clouds by Gianni Riotta
Stephen Sartarelli
2002
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Martin McLaughlin
2000
Take-off by Daniele Del Giudice
Joseph Farrell
1998
His Mother's House by Marta Morazzoni
Emma Rose
1996
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
Tim Parks
1994
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Tim Parks
1992
The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta Loy
William Weaver
1992
Blind Argus by Gesualdo Bufalino
Patrick Creagh
1990
Danube by Claudio Magris
Patrick Creagh
1990
I colloqui by Guido Gozzano
J.G. Nichols
1988
The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
Avril Bardoni
1986
China (The Monuments of civilisation) by Gildo Fossati
Bruce Penman
1984
Ebla. An empire rediscovered by Paolo Matthiae
Christopher Holme
1982
Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
Julian Mitchell
1980
Selections from Political Writings: 1921-1926 by Antonio Gramsci
Quintin Hoare
1979
Shema: Collected Poems by Primo Levi
Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann
1977
The Forests of Norbio by Giuseppe Dessi
Frances Frenaye
1976
Cagliostro by Roberto Gervaso
Cormack O’Cuilleanain
1975
Letters from inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser; by Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
Stephen M. Hellman
1974
Wrestling with Christ by Luigi Santucci
Bernard Wall
1973
Selected Poems: a bilingual edition by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Patrick Creagh
1972
The Heron by Giorgio Bassani
William Weaver
1971
t zero by Italo Calvino
William Weaver
1971
On Neoclassicism by Mario Praz
Angus Davidson
1970
A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
William Weaver
1969
Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science by Paolo Rossi
Sacha Rabinovitch
1969
Popes In the Twentieth Century: From Pius X to John XXIII by Carlo Falconi; Translator Muriel Grindrod
Muriel Grindrod
1968
I piccoli maestri by Luigi Meneghello
Raleigh Trevelyan
1968
La traduzione by Silvano Ceccherini
Isabel Quigly
1967
The Reawakening by Primo Levi
Stuart Woolf
1966
The Column of Infamy by Alessandro Manzoni
Jane Grigson & Father Kenelm Foster
1966
Dongo: la fine di Mussolini by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle
W.H. Darwell
1965
The Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand by Giuseppe Cesare Abba
E. R. Vincent
1964
The Odes of Dante by Dante Alighieri
H.S. Vere-Hodge
1964
Nuovi racconti romani by Alberto Moravia
Angus Davidson
1964
Il disertore by Giuseppe Dessì
Donata Origo
1963
The island of the fisherwomen by Fosco Maraini
Eric Mosbacher
1963

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The John Florio Prize is a biennial award for translations into English of full length Italian works of literary merit and general interest. The winner is awarded £3,000 and a runner-up is awarded £1,000.

Established in 1963 and named for the writer-translator John Florio, who lived in London 1555-1625, the prize is generously sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Society of Authors.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/translation-prizes/italian-john-florio-prize/
The Society of Authors administers prizes for published translations into English from the Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The prizes are generously supported by Arts Council England.The annual deadline for entry is 31st January. Established in 1963 and named for the writer-translator John Florio, who lived in London 1555-1625. The prize is most generously sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the British Italian Society and Arts Council England.   A biennial prize (£3,000) for translations into English of full length Italian works of literary merit and general interest. The original must have been first published in the last 100 years. (English, Member-written)

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