The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation was a literary prize awarded in the United Kingdom from 1996 until 2017[1] to the translator of an outstanding work of fiction for young readers translated into English.
The award was given every two years and is sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust.
The award was administered from 1996 by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton University, and subsidised in its early years by the Arts Council of England.
[2] 2017[7][8][9] 2015[10] 2013[11][12] 2011[13] 2009[14] 2007[15] 2005[16] 2003 Anthea Bell has won the Marsh Award three times (1996, 2003, 2007).
Anthea Bell and Patricia Crampton have both won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award, which is the American Library Association's annual award for translated children's books (inaugurated in 1968) and conferred upon "the publisher".