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)
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