The 2024 Cercador Prize Finalists
The 2023 Cercador Prize Finalists
About the Prize

Established in 2023, the Cercador Prize recognizes works of literature in translation as selected by a committee of independent booksellers based across the United States.

Each committee member is responsible for nominating two book-length translations published and distributed in the U.S. between January 1st and December 31st of the current year. The committee’s primary focus is English-language translation including but not limited to fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and hybrid texts. There is no formal submission process for this prize.

The ten finalists for the 2025 prize will be announced on International Translation Day (September 30) with one winner to follow in November. An amount of $1,000 will be conferred entirely to the winning translator or translators.

Translators based anywhere in the world are eligible for the Cercador Prize.