 He won the PEN Prize for translation twice, for that work and again for "Perfume" in 1987.Woods was also awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translations of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" and Arno Schmidt's "Nobodaddy's Children" in 1996; as well as the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for the translation of Christoph Ransmayr's "The Last World" in 1991.He was awarded the Ungar German Translation Award in 1995, and most recently the prestigious Goethe-Medaille from the Goethe Institute in 2008.