We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2026! Many congratulations to all those shortlisted! 

The winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2026 will be announced on Oxford Translation Day, June 13 2026 at St Anne’s College. Grab your ticket to the prize ceremony, here.

Carlos Manuel Álvarez, False War (Fitzcarraldo) translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
 
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso (New York Review of Books) translated from the Italian by D.M. Black
 
Fernando Pessoa, Fower Pessoas (Carcanet) translated from the Portuguese by Colin Bramwell
 
Ivan V. Lalić, The Taste of Lightning (Bloodaxe Books) translated from the Serbian by Francis R. Jones
 
J.M.G. Le Clézio, On the Wrong Side: Stories of the Rejected (Seagull Books) translated from the French by Teresa Lavendar Fagan
 
Oliver Lovrenski, Back in the Day (Hamish Hamilton) translated from the Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
 
Raharimanana, Return (Seagull Books) translated from the French by Allison M. Charette
 
Yoko Tawada, The Naked Eye (Granta) translated from by German by Susan Bernofsky