 Among literary awards, he has received the 1994 TLS/George Bernard Shaw Translation Prize for his translation of 
Gösta Ågren's poems," A Valley In The Midst of Violence", published by Bloodaxe, and the 2006 Stora Pris of the Finland-Swedish Writers' Association (Finlands svenska författareförening), Helsinki.From 2007 to 2010, David McDuff worked as an editor and translator with Prague Watchdog, the Prague-based NGO which monitored and discussed human rights abuses in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.McDuff was honoured with the Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators in 2013.