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Author record · 2006 to 2018

Don Paterson: Awards and Best-of Lists

Don Paterson has won 2 awards, including the Forward Prizes for Poetry (2009) for Rain, with 2 shortlist or finalist places and 6 year-end list picks in our archive.

Also credited with Sean O'Brien

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2018The Fall at Home: New and Collected AphorismsThe Irish Times Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books of the Year
201640 SonnetsGriffin Poetry Prize source (opens in a new tab)Shortlist · International
201540 SonnetsCosta Book Awards source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Poetry
201540 SonnetsT. S. Eliot Prize source (opens in a new tab)Shortlist · Poetry
201540 SonnetsThe Telegraph Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Best Books
2013Train SongsThe Guardian Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Poetry
2010Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New CommentaryThe Guardian Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Poetry
2009RainForward Prizes for Poetry source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Best Collection
2009RainThe Guardian Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Poetry
2006OrpheusThe Irish Times Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books of the Year

Books

  1. 40 Sonnets4 sources · 2015 to 2016
  2. Rain2 sources · 2009
  3. Orpheus1 source · 2006
  4. Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary1 source · 2010
  5. The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms1 source · 2018
  6. Train Songs1 source · 2013