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The Bernard Shaw Prize for Swedish Translation

Past Winners

2012

Winner: Robin Fulton for his translation of Chickweed Wintergreen (pictured far right) by Harry Martinson (Bloodaxe Books)

Commended: Peter Graves for his translation of The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund (Profile)

2009

Winner: Thomas Teal for Fair Play by Tove Jansson (Sort Of Books)

Runner up: Tiina Nunnally for The Story of Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (Harvill Secker)

2006

Winner: Sarah Death for Snow by Ellen Mattson ( Jonathan Cape)

Runner up: Tom Geddes for Hash by Torgny Lindgren (Duckworth)

2003

Winner: Sarah Death for The Angel House by Kerstin Ekman (Norvik Press)

Runner up: Tom Geddes for Sweetness by Torgny Lindgren (Harvill)

2000

Winner: Anna Paterson for The Forest of Hours by Kerstin Ekman (Chatto & Windus)

Highly Commended: Sarah Death for Money by Victoria Benedictsson (Norvik Press)

1997

Winner: Michael Robinson for August Strindberg Selected Essays by August Strindberg (CUP)

1994

Winner: David McDuff for A Valley in the Midst of Violence by Gösta Agren (Bloodaxe)

1991

Winner:Tom Geddes The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren (Harvill)

 

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