Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

DescriptionAnnual award for the best book written by a woman, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland

Country United Kingdom / Ireland

Presented byUniversity of Warwick

Rewards£1,000 (shared equally between author and translator(s))

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Description	Annual award for the best book written by a woman, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland
Country	United Kingdom / Ireland
Presented by	University of Warwick
Rewards	£1,000 (shared equally between author and translator(s))
Status	Active
First award	2017
Final award	2025
Currently held by	Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing – And the Walls Became the World All Around
Website	warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/womenintranslation/

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is an annual award for work by a female author translated into English and published by a UK-based or Irish publisher during the previous calendar year. The prize was established in 2017 "to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership."^[1] The prize is open to works of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, and fiction for children or young adults. Only works written by a woman are eligible; the gender of the translator is immaterial. The £1,000 prize is divided evenly between the author and her translator(s), or goes entirely to the translator(s) in cases where the writer is no longer living. The prize is funded and administered by the University of Warwick.^[2][3]

The prize was established following research conducted by the University of Warwick which revealed a significant gender imbalance in translated literature published in the UK, where only about a third of translated works were written by women. The award was founded to specifically address and improve these statistics.^[4]

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is an annual literary award established in 2017 by the University of Warwick to address the severe gender imbalance in translated literature published in the UK and Ireland, where women authors historically made up only about 30% of translated titles.^[5][6] The £1,000 prize is shared equally between the writer and her translator(s) (or awarded fully to the translator if the author is deceased).^[7]