Richard Burns : awards & prizes

2007        Veliki skolski čas prize Prize, Serbia, for The Blue Butterfly, Salt 
                Publishing, Cambridge, 2006

2005        Morava International Poetry Prize, Serbia, for U vreme suše
                (Serbian version of In a Time of Drought, tr. Vera V. Radojević)

2003        Shearsman book of the month, July, for Book With no Back Cover

1992        H. H. Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Award for Poetry for The Blue Butterfly,
                an early unpublished draft

1992        CELJ (Council of Learned Journals of America), runner-up for
                'Best Special Issue 1994', for Out of Yugoslavia, North Dakota
                Quarterly, co-editor

1990        Yeats Club, first prize, translation

1989        Yeats Club, runner-up, poem & translation

1982        Arvon Poetry Competition, Duncan Lawrie Award, for
                'Black is the light (1)

1979-81   Arts Council of Great Britain, Writer’s Fellowship, Victoria Centre
                for Adult Education, Gravesend

1974        Keats Memorial Prize for Poetry, first prize, for 'The Rose of Sharon'

1973        Arts Council of Great Britain, writer’s grant

1972        Eric Gregory Award for Poetry

1972        Keats Memorial Prize for Poetry, finalist

1969        Arts Council of Great Britain, translator’s grant

1961        Transatlantic Review, prize, national short story competition