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AAIS Book Prizes 2024
The AAIS now accepts submissions for the 2024 AAIS Book Prize. DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2024
Up to six prizes will be awarded for the best books in Italian Studies published in 2024. New this year, the 2024 Book Prize will aim for the first time also to recognize and celebrate exceptional translations contributing significantly to the diffusion of Italian culture and scholarship in the English-speaking world.
We invite publishers, authors, and translators to submit nominations for the following awards:
- Literary and Cultural Studies (including Theater, Performance, and Critical Theory)
- Visual Studies (including Art History, Film, Media, etc.)
- History, Society and Politics (including Intellectual History and Philosophy)
- First Book
- English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Scholarly Work
- English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Literary Work
The First Book may also receive an award in one of the other categories.
Translation Category:
- Submissions of book-length scholarship should encompass a broad range of cultural areas, including but not limited to visual arts, film and media studies, cultural studies, history, and politics.
- Submissions of literary texts may be of any genre (novel, short story, theater, poetry, etc.).