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