Sam Garrett has translated some fifty novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch–English translation.
Sam Garrett
Biography
Awards
- Winner of the 2015 English PEN Award
- Longlisted for the 2015 Gregor von Rezzori Award
- Longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Australian Book Design Awards, Series
- Shortlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- Longlisted for the 2009 AKO Literature Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Australian Book Design Awards, Non-Fiction
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Australian Book Design Awards, Series
- Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
- Winner of the 2020 ABDA Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover
- Shortlisted for the 2018 Libris Literature Award
- Shortlisted for the 2018 E. du Perron Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Australian Book Design Awards, Series
- Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award