One of their principles was that the original novel itself had to be well written and have literary importance, but we're talking about a translation prize, after all, so the most important criteria in the judging were the quality of the translator's writing and the difficulty of the original.
他們的原則之一是，小說本身要有可讀性和重要性，但畢竟是翻譯獎，所以譯筆和原著難度是最具決定性的標準。