Matei Calinescu Prize

The Matei Calinescu Prize is a triennial prize given to an academic by the Modern Language Association.

Description

The prize is awarded for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought. The prize is usually given to a first or second work published by an entrant. The prize has been established in honor of Matei Calinescu, a Romanian poet and scholar who taught at Indiana University, Bloomington.[1]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:[2]

2014–15

Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania, for Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)

Honorable mention: Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature (Columbia Univ. Press, 2015)

References
  1. "Matei Calinescu Prize". mla.org. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  2. "Matei Calinescu Prize". mla.org. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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