| 2018 | The Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award (Exile Magazine / Exile Editions) |
| 2015 | The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets |
| 2004 | The Lewis Galantière Award of the American Translators Association |
| 2004 | Canada Council Grant for fiction |
| 2003 | First-prize winner (Travel Literature), CBC Literary Awards |
| 2003 | National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship |
| 2002 | Toronto Arts Council Grant for fiction |
| 2001 | Nominee (one of three shortlisted finalists), PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center |
| 1996 | The American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize |
| 1995 | The Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation |
| 1994 | Winner (Poetry), CBC Radio / Saturday Night Literary Awards |
| 1991 | Thord-Gray Memorial Fund Grant, American-Scandinavian Foundation |
| 1991 | Toronto Arts Council Grant for poetry |
| 1990 | The American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize |
| 1990 | Works-in-Progress Grant for poetry, Ontario Arts Council |
| 1988 | National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship |
| 1986 | The F. R. Scott Translation Prize of the League of Canadian Poets |
| 1985 | The Richard Wilbur Prize of the American Literary Translators Association and University of Missouri Press (shared with William Mishler) |
| 1984 | The Alice and Corrin Strong Fund Grant, American-Scandinavian Foundation |
| 1983 | Translation Center Award from the Translation Center, Columbia University |
| 1977 | Winner (poetry), Norma Epstein National Writing Competition, Canada |