2013

Philip Boehm for his translation of The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller (Portobello)

2012

Judith Landry for Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar (Dedalus)

2011

Margaret Jull Costa for José Saramago's The Elephant's Journey (Harvill Secker)

2010

Jamie McKendrick for Valerio Magrelli’s The Embrace (Faber and Faber)

2009

Anthea Bell for her translation of Saša Stanišic's How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

2008

Margaret Jull Costa for her translation of Eça de Queiroz's The Maias  (Dedalus)

2007

Michael Hofmann for his translation of Durs Grünbein's, Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems (Faber and Faber)

2006

Len Rix for his translation of Magda Szabo's The Door (Harvill Secker)

2005

Denis Jackson for his translation of Theodor Storm's Paul the Puppeteer (Angel Books)

2004

Michael Hofmann for his translation of Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel (Penguin)

2003

Ciaran Carson for his translation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno (Granta)

2002

Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen for Miklos Banffy's They Were Divided (Arcadia)

2001

Edwin Morgan for his translation of Phaedra by Jean Racine (Carcanet) into Scots

2000

Margaret Jull Costa for the translation of Jose Saramago's All the Names (Harvill)

1999

Jonathan Galassi for his translation of Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems (Carcanet)