The Vondel Prize for Dutch/Flemish Translation
Past Winners
2009
Winner: Sam Garrett for Ararat: In Search of the Mythical Mountain by Frank Westerman (Harvill Secker)
Runner Up: Francis Jones for What It Is: Selected Poems by Esther Jansma (Bloodaxe Books)
2007
Winner: Susan Massotty for My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah (Canongate)
2005
Winner: Diane Webb for Colors Demonic & Devine: Shades of Meaning in the Middle Ages & After by Herman Pleij (Columbia University Press)
2003
Winner: Sam Garrett for The Rider by Tim Krabbe (Bloomsbury)
Runner up: Susan Massotty for All Souls’ Day by Cees Nooteboom (Picador)
2001
Winner: Hester Velmans for A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein (Doubleday)
Highly commended: Paul Vincent for Metaphors of Memory by Douwe Draaisma (Cambridge University Press)
Highly commended: Stacey Knecht for Desire by Hugo Claus (Viking)
Highly commended: Sherry Marx-Macdonald for Darwin’s Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt (MIT Press)
1999
Winner: Ina Rilke for Roads to Santiago by Cees Noteboom (Harvill/Harcourt Brace) and The Virtuoso by Margriet de Moor (Picador)
Highly commended: Sam Garrett for The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet) and Mali Blues by Lieve Joris (Lonely Planet)
1996
Winner: Stacey Knecht for The Great Longing by Marcel Möring (Flamingo)
Highly commended: Noel Clark for Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel (Absolute Press)