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Prizes, grants and awards
Translators Association Prizes 2007
THE VONDEL PRIZE
Judges: Ina Rilke, Paul Binding and Diane Webb
Winner: Susan Massotty for My Father’s Notebook: a novel by Kader Abdollah (HarperCollins)
THE SCHLEGEL-TIECK PRIZE
Judges: Patricia Duncker, Stefan Berger and Christine Lo
Winner: Sally-Anne Spencer for The Swarm by Frank Schätzing (Hodder)
Runner-up: Anthea Bell for Vienna by Eva Menasse (Weidenfeld)
THE SCOTT-MONCRIEFF PRIZE
Judges: Martin Sorrell, Dinah Cannell and Stephen Blanchard
Winner: Sarah Adams for Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guène (Chatto)
Runner-up: Geoffrey Strachan for The Woman who Waited by Andrei Makine (Sceptre)
THE SAIF GHOBASH-BANIPAL PRIZE
Judges: Saadi Youssef, Moris Farhi, Maya Jaggi, Roger Allen
Winner: Farouk Abdel Wahab for The Lodging House by Khairy Shalaby (American University in Cairo Press)
Runner-up: Marilyn Booth for Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (Syracuse University Press)
Commended: Peter Theroux for Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter by Emile Habiby (Ibis Editions)
THE PREMIO VALLE-INCLAN
Judges: Margaret Jull Costa, Isabel Quigly, and Jason Wilson
Winner: Nick Caistor for The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón (Harvill Secker)
Runner-up: John Cullen for Lies by Enrique de Hériz (Weidenfeld)
Download the list of prize winners here
See also
Bernard Shaw Prize (past winners)
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)
Translators Association Prizes (entry details)
Translators Association Prizes
Vondel Prize (past winners)
The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (past winners)