Translation Awards

Finalist for the 45th Annual Northern California Book Award for Translation in Prose for the novel A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudicr (New Vessel Press, 2025).

Finalist for the 2023 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) for M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati (HarperCollins, 2022).

Winner of the 42nd Annual Northern California Book Award for Translation Prose for the novel The Performance by Claudia Petrucci (World Editions, 2022).

Finalist for the 2019 / 38th Annual Northern California Book Award for Translation/Fiction for the novel A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions, 2019)

Finalist for the 2020 John Florio Prize (Society of Authors) for the novel A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions, 2019)

Finalist for the 2018 / 37th Annual Northern California Book Award for Translation/Fiction for the novel Blameless by Claudio Magris (Yale University Press, 2017)

Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel Like Family by Paolo Giordano (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Penguin, 2015)

Winner of the 2015 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) for the novel Blindly by Claudio Magris (Penguin Canada, 2010, and Yale University Press, 2012)

Finalist for the 2015 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel Three Light-Years by Andrea Canobbio (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014).

Winner of the 2014 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza (Penguin UK and Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2013)

Winner of the 2013 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel Blindly by Claudio Magris (Yale University Press, 2012)

Winner of the 2012 John Florio Prize for Translation for the novel Scent of a Woman by Giovanni Arpino (Penguin UK, 2011)

Finalist for the 2012 Crime Writers’ Asociation Dagger Award, for Maurizio de Giovanni's I Will Have Vengeance (Hersilia Press 2012, Europa Editions 2013)

Finalist for the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel Blindly by Claudio Magris (Penguin Canada, 2010)

Finalist, 2004 Pen Center USA Literary Awards, Translation Category, for the novel Head Above Water by Stefano Bortolussi (City Lights, 2003)

Winner of the  2004 Northern California Book Award for Translation for the novel Head Above Water by Stefano Bortolussi (City Lights, 2003)