Sarah Death has translated works by many Swedish authors including Kerstin Ekman, Sven Lindqvist, Steve Sem-Sandberg, children's writer Astrid Lindgren and classic crime writer Per Wahlöö. She has twice won the triennial George Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from Swedish, and was awarded the Swedish Academy’s Translation Prize in 2008. She has also translated Norwegian author Linn Ullman. She has been editor of the magazine Swedish Book Review since 2003.