Mark Hutchinson's Translation of Anne Serre's The Governesses Shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff Prize 2020

Congratulations to Mark Hutchinson whose translation of Anne Serre’s The Governesses has been shortlisted for this year’s Scott Moncrieff Prize! Our well wishes extended also to New Directions (in the US) who published the first English-language edition of the novel and to Mark Hutchinson’s brilliant editor, Mieke Chew.

The Scott Moncrieff Prize is an annual award of £1,000 for translations into English of full length French works of literary merit and general interest. Established in 1965, and named after the celebrated translator of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, the prize is generously sponsored by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni.

This will be the third Les Fugitives title shortlisted since Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon’s translation of Suite For Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger won the prize in 2015. Sophie Lewis’s translation of Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre was nominated in 2019.