The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize was established in 1963. Today it is awarded biannually for the best English translation of a full-length work of literary merit and general interest.
Donata Origo, for The Deserter by Giuseppe DessiEric Mosbacher, for Hekura by Fosco MarainiAngus Davidson, for More Roman Tales by Alberto MoraviaProfessor E. R. Vincent, for A Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousands by Giuseppe Cesare AbbaH. S. Vere-Hodge, for The Odes of DanteW. H. Darwell, for Dongo: The Last Act by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle & Urbano LazzaroStuart Woolf, for The Truce by Primo LeviJane Grigson and Father Kenelm Foster, for The Columns of Infamy of Crime and Punishments by Cesare BeccariaIsabel Quigly, for The Transfers by Silvano CeccheriniMuriel Grindrod, for The Popes in the 20th Century by Carlo FalconiRaleigh Trevelyan, for The Outlaws by Luigi MeneghelloSacha Rabinovitch, for Francis Bacon: from Magic to Science by Paolo RossiWilliam Weaver, for A Violent Life by Pier PasoliniAngus Davidson, for On Neoclassicism by Mario PrazWilliam Weaver, for The Heron by Giorgio Bassani and Time and the Hunter by Italo CalvinoPatrick Creagh, for Selected Poems by Giuseppe UngarettiBernard Wall, for Wrestling with Christ by Luigi SantucciStephen M. Hellman, for Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party by Maria Antonietta MacciocchiCormac O’Cuilleanain, for Cagliostro by Roberto GervasoFrances Frenaye, for The Forests of Norbio by Giuseppe DessiRuth Feldman & Brian Swann, for Shema, Collected Poems of Primo LeviQuintin Hoare, for Selections from Political Writings 1921-26 by Antonio GramsciJulian Mitchell, for Henry IV by PirandelloChristopher Holme, for Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered by Paolo MatthiaeBruce Penman, for China (The moments of civilisation) by Gildo FossatiAvril Bardoni, for The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo SciasciaJ. G. Nichols, for The Colloquies by Guido GozzanoPatrick Creagh, for Danube by Claudio MagrisPatrick Creagh, for Blind Argus by Gesualdo BufalinoWilliam Weaver, for The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta LoyTim Parks, for Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur JaeggyTim Parks, for The Road to San Giovanni by Italo CalvinoEmma Rose, for His Mother's House by Marta MorazzoniJoseph Farrell, for Take-Off by Daniele del GiudiceMartin McLaughlin, for Why Read the Classics? by Italo CalvinoStephen Sartarelli, for Prince of the Clouds by Gianni RiottaAlastair McEwen, for Senior Service by Carlo FeltrinelliHoward Curtis, for Coming Back by Edoardo AlbinatiCarol O’Sullivan and Martin Thom, for Kuraj by Silvia Di NataleRunner-up: Aubrey Botsford, for The Ballad of the Low Lifes by Enrico Remmert
Peter Robinson, for The Greener Meadow by Luciano ErbaRunner-up: Alastair McEwen, for Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
Jamie McKendrick, for The Embrace: Selected Poems by Valerio MagrelliRunner-up: Abigail Asher, for The Natural Order of Things by Andrea Canobbio
Anne Milano Appel, for Scent of a Woman by Giovanni ArpinoCommended: Howard Curtis, for In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
Commended: Shaun Whiteside, for Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa
Patrick Creagh, for Memory of the Abyss by Marcello FoisCommended: Cristina Viti, for A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano
Jamie McKendrick, for Archipelago by Antonella AneddaCommended: Richard Dixon, for Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
