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 Dessi
Eric Mosbacher, for Hekura by Fosco Maraini
Angus Davidson, for More Roman Tales by Alberto Moravia
Professor E. R. Vincent, for A Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousands by Giuseppe Cesare Abba
H. S. Vere-Hodge, for The Odes of Dante
W. H. Darwell, for Dongo: The Last Act by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle & Urbano Lazzaro
Stuart Woolf, for The Truce by Primo Levi
Jane Grigson and Father Kenelm Foster, for The Columns of Infamy of Crime and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria
Isabel Quigly, for The Transfers by Silvano Ceccherini
Muriel Grindrod, for The Popes in the 20th Century by Carlo Falconi
Raleigh Trevelyan, for The Outlaws by Luigi Meneghello
Sacha Rabinovitch, for Francis Bacon: from Magic to Science by Paolo Rossi
William Weaver, for A Violent Life by Pier Pasolini
Angus Davidson, for On Neoclassicism by Mario Praz
William Weaver, for The Heron by Giorgio Bassani and Time and the Hunter by Italo Calvino
Patrick Creagh, for Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Bernard Wall, for Wrestling with Christ by Luigi Santucci
Stephen M. Hellman, for Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party by Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
Cormac O’Cuilleanain, for Cagliostro by Roberto Gervaso
Frances Frenaye, for The Forests of Norbio by Giuseppe Dessi
Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann, for Shema, Collected Poems of Primo Levi
Quintin Hoare, for Selections from Political Writings 1921-26 by Antonio Gramsci
Julian Mitchell, for Henry IV by Pirandello
Christopher Holme, for Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered by Paolo Matthiae
Bruce Penman, for China (The moments of civilisation) by Gildo Fossati
Avril Bardoni, for The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
J. G. Nichols, for The Colloquies by Guido Gozzano
Patrick Creagh, for Danube by Claudio Magris
Patrick Creagh, for Blind Argus by Gesualdo Bufalino
William Weaver, for The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta Loy
Tim Parks, for Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Tim Parks, for The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
Emma Rose, for His Mother's House by Marta Morazzoni
Joseph Farrell, for Take-Off by Daniele del Giudice
Martin McLaughlin, for Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Stephen Sartarelli, for Prince of the Clouds by Gianni Riotta
Alastair McEwen, for Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli
Howard Curtis, for Coming Back by Edoardo Albinati
Carol O’Sullivan and Martin Thom, for Kuraj by Silvia Di Natale
Runner-up: Aubrey Botsford, for The Ballad of the Low Lifes by Enrico Remmert
Peter Robinson, for The Greener Meadow by Luciano Erba
Runner-up: Alastair McEwen, for Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
Jamie McKendrick, for The Embrace: Selected Poems by Valerio Magrelli
Runner-up: Abigail Asher, for The Natural Order of Things by Andrea Canobbio
Anne Milano Appel, for Scent of a Woman by Giovanni Arpino
Commended: 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 Fois
Commended: Cristina Viti, for A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano
Jamie McKendrick, for Archipelago by Antonella Anedda
Commended: Richard Dixon, for Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
