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Prizes, grants and awards
Bernard Shaw Prize (past winners)
For Swedish Translation
2006 Sarah Death Snow by Ellen Mattson ( Jonathan Cape) Runner up: Tom Geddes Hash by Torgny Lindgren (Duckworth)
2003 Sarah Death The Angel House by Kerstin Ekman (Norvik Press) Runner up: Tom Geddes Sweetness by Torgny Lindgren (Harvill)
2000 Anna Paterson The Forest of Hours by Kerstin Ekman (Chatto & Windus) Highly Commended: Sarah Death Money by Victoria Benedictsson (Norvik Press)
1997 Michael Robinson August Strindberg Selected Essays by August Strindberg (CUP)
1994 David McDuff A Valley in the Midst of Violence by Gösta Agren (Bloodaxe)
1991 Tom Geddes The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren (Harvill)
See also
Translators Association Prizes
Translators Association Prizes (entry details)
Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Award (past winners)
John Florio Prize (past winners)
Premio Valle Inclán Prize (past winners)
The Rossica International Prize (past winners)
Schlegel-Tieck Prize (past winners)
Scott Moncrieff Prize (past winners)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (past winners)
Vondel Prize (past winners)
The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (past winners)