Translation awards acknowledge translator’s contribution to literary culture and offer visibility for their profession among publishers and readers. Browse awards here.
The European Literature Prize is awarded annually to the best contemporary European novel to appear in Dutch translation in the previous year. The award goes to both the author and the translator of the winning book. The author receives 10,000 EUR and the translator 5,000 EUR.
The Dutch Foundation for Literature’s Translation Prizes are awarded to literary translators who distinguish themselves both by the high quality of their translation work and by their efforts as ambassadors for a linguistic region, a genre or for literary translation in general. There is an annual prize recognizing a translation into Dutch, and in even-numbered years also a translator from Dutch into another language. Each prize consists of 15,000 EUR.
The Filter Translation Prizes are annually awarded in October by the Filter Foundation during the ILFU (International Literature Festival Utrecht) and celebrates the creativity of translators who solve translation problems arising from the unique characteristics of the work being translated. Both the Filter Translation Prize and the Filter Translation Prize, for children’s and youth books, are endowed with 10,000 EUR.
The Vondel Translation Prize is a biennial prize honoring the best English translation into a Dutch- language literary or cultural-historical work. The prize is endowed with 5,000 EUR. The prize is organized by the Dutch Foundation for Literature in combination with Flanders Literature.
Organized by the Dutch Foundation of Literature, the Brockway Prize is a biennial prize, honoring the oeuvre of translators of poetry from Dutch into other languages. The award is endowed with 5,000 EUR and is financed by the estate of the poet and translator James Brockway, who died in 2001.
