1960s edit

  = winner

1963 edit

• Donata Origo, for The Deserter by Giuseppe Dessi
• Eric Mosbacher, for Hekura by Fosco Maraini

1964 edit

• Angus Davidson, for More Roman Tales by Alberto Moravia
• Professor E. R. Vincent, for A Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand by Giuseppe Cesare Abba^[3][4]
• H. S. Vere-Hodge, for The Odes of Dante

1965 edit

• W. H. Darwell, for Dongo: The Last Act by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle & Urbano Lazzaro

1966 edit

• 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

1967 edit

• Isabel Quigly, for The Transfers by Silvano Ceccherini

1968 edit

• Muriel Grindrod, for The Popes in the 20th Century by Carlo Falconi
• Raleigh Trevelyan, for The Outlaws by Luigi Meneghello

1969 edit

• Sacha Rabinovitch, for Francis Bacon: from Magic to Science by Paolo Rossi
• William Weaver, for A Violent Life by Pier Pasolini

1970s edit

1970 edit

• Angus Davidson, for On Neoclassicism by Mario Praz

1971 edit

• William Weaver, for The Heron by Giorgio Bassani and Time and the Hunter by Italo Calvino

1972 edit

• Patrick Creagh, for Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti

1973 edit

• Bernard Wall, for Wrestling with Christ by Luigi Santucci

1974 edit

• Stephen M. Hellman, for Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party by Maria Antonietta Macciocchi

1975 edit

• Cormac O’Cuilleanain, for Cagliostro by Roberto Gervaso

1976 edit

• Frances Frenaye, for The Forests of Norbio by Giuseppe Dessi

1977 edit

• Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann, for Shema, Collected Poems of Primo Levi

1979 edit

• Quintin Hoare, for Selections from Political Writings 1921-26 by Antonio Gramsci

1980s edit

1980 edit

• Julian Mitchell, for Henry IV by Pirandello

1982 edit

• Christopher Holme, for Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered by Paolo Matthiae

1984 edit

• Bruce Penman, for China (The moments of civilisation) by Gildo Fossati

1986 edit

• Avril Bardoni, for The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia

1988 edit

• J. G. Nichols, for The Colloquies by Guido Gozzano

1990s edit

1990 edit

• Patrick Creagh, for Danube by Claudio Magris
• Patrick Creagh, for Blind Argus by Gesualdo Bufalino

1992 edit

• William Weaver, for The Dust Roads of Monferrato by Rosetta Loy
• Tim Parks, for Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy

1994 edit

• Tim Parks, for The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino

1996 edit

• Emma Rose, for His Mother's House by Marta Morazzoni

1998 edit

• Joseph Farrell, for Take-Off by Daniele del Giudice

2000s edit

2000 edit

• Martin McLaughlin, for Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino

2002 edit

• Stephen Sartarelli, for Prince of the Clouds by Gianni Riotta
• Alastair McEwen, for Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli

2004 edit

• Howard Curtis, for Coming Back by Edoardo Albinati

2006 edit

•   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

2008 edit

•   Peter Robinson, for The Greener Meadow by Luciano Erba

Runner-up: Alastair McEwen, for Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco

2010s edit

2010 edit

•   Jamie McKendrick, for The Embrace: Selected Poems by Valerio Magrelli

Runner-up: Abigail Asher, for The Natural Order of Things by Andrea Canobbio

2012 edit

•   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

2014 edit

•   Patrick Creagh, for Memory of the Abyss by Marcello Fois

Commended: Cristina Viti, for A Life Apart by Mariapia Veladiano

2016 edit

•   Jamie McKendrick, for Archipelago by Antonella Anedda

Commended: Richard Dixon, for Numero Zero by Umberto Eco

2018 edit

•   Winner: Gini Alhadeff for her translation of I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy (And Other Stories)

Runner-up: Cristina Viti for her translation of Stigmata by Gëzim Hajdari (Shearsman Books)

Shortlistees:

• Jamie McKendrick for his translation of Within the Walls by Giorgio Bassani (Penguin Classics)
• Mario Petrucci for his translation of Xenia by Eugenio Montale (Arc Publications)
• Cristina Viti for her translation of The World Saved by Kids by Elsa Morante (Seagull Books)

2020s edit

2020 edit

•   Winner: Jhumpa Lahiri for her translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions)

Runner-up: Jenny McPhee for her translation of The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte (New York Review Books)

Shortlistees:

• Anne Milano Appel for a translation of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions)
• Ekin Oklap for a translation of Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnson for a translation of Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli (Princeton University Press)
• Howard Curtis for a translation of Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto (Pushkin Press)

2022 edit

•   Winner: Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda for a translation of My Karst and My City by Scipio Slataper (University of Toronto Press)

Runner-up: J Ockenden for a translation of Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini (Peirene Press)

Runner-up: Tim Parks for a translation of The House on The Hill and The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese (Penguin)

Shortlistees:

• Elena Pala for a translation of The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Stash Luczkwi for a translation of Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti (Harvill Secker)
• Stephen Twilley for a translation of Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte (New York Review Books)