 McDuff's translations include both foreign poetry and prose, including poems by Joseph Brodsky and Tomas Venclova, and novels including Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", and "The Idiot" (all three in Penguin Classics).His "Complete Poems" of Edith Södergran (1984, 1992) and "Complete Poems" of Karin Boye (1994) were published by Bloodaxe Books.McDuff’s translation of the Finnish-language author Tuomas Kyrö’s 2011 novel "The Beggar and the Hare" was published in 2014.