Katherine Singer Kovács Prize

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize is a literary prize awarded annually in honour of Katherine Singer Kovács to any book that is published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.[1] The prize was established in 1989 with a monetary gift from Joseph and Mimi B. Singer, who were the parents of Kovacs. Kovacs was a specialist in Spanish and Latin American literature and film.[2] The awarding of the prize is managed by a Prize Selection Committee of the Modern Language Association.[3]

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Winners
Year Author Title Publisher, date Refs
1989Roberto González EchevarríaMyth and archive: a theory of Latin American narrativeCambridge Univ. Press, 1990[4][5]
1990Regina HarrisonSigns, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and CultureUniversity of Texas Press,1989[6][7]
1991George MariscalContradictory Subjects Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish CultureCornell University Press, 1991[8]
William Rowe, Vivian SchellingMemory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin AmericaVerso Books, 1991[9]
1992Antonio Benítez-RojoThe Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern PerspectiveDuke University Press, 1992[10]
Francine MasielloBetween Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern ArgentinaUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1992[4][11]
1993Margarita ZamoraReading ColumbusUniversity of California Press, 1993[12][13]
1994Candace SlaterDance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian ImaginationUniversity of Chicago Press, 1994[12]
1995Walter D. MignoloThe Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and ColonizationUniversity of Michigan Press, 1995[14]
1996Diana SorensenFacundo and the Construction of Argentine CultureUniversity of Texas Press, 1996[12]
1997Kathryn Joy McKnightThe Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671–1742University of Massachusetts Press, 1997[15]
1998Frances AparicioListening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican CulturesWesleyan University Press, 1997[16]
Rebecca HaidtEmbodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and CultureSt. Martin's Press, 1998[17]
1999Idelber AvelarThe untimely presentDuke University Press, 1999[18][4]
2000Catherine JulienReading Inca historyUniversity of Iowa press, 2000[19][4]
2001Georgina Dopico BlackPerfect wives, other womenDuke Univ. Press, 2001[20][4]
Francine R. MasielloThe Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal CrisisDuke University Press, 2001[21][22]
2002Noël ValisThe Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern SpainDuke University Press, 2003[23]
2003Diana TaylorThe archive and the repertoireDuke University Press, 2003[24]
2004Sibylle FischerModernity disavowedDuke University Press, 2004[4][25]
2005Rubén GalloMexican modernity: The avant-garde and the technological revolutionMIT Press, 2005[26]
2006William P. ChildersTransnational CervantesUniversity of Toronto Press, 2006[27]
2007Rolena AdornoThe polemics of possession in Spanish American narrativeYale University Press, 2008[28][29]
2008Nicolás Wey GómezThe tropics of empire: Why Columbus sailed south to the IndiesMIT Press, 2008[30][4]
2009Lisa VoigtWriting captivity in the early modern AtlanticUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2009[31][4]
2010Stephanie MerrimThe spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary cultureUniversity of Texas Press, 2010[32][33]
2011E. Michael GerliCelestina and the Ends of DesireUniversity of Toronto Press, 2010[34][35]
2012Joanne Rappaport
Tom Cummins		Beyond the Lettered CityDuke University Press, 2012[36][37]
2013Mabel MorañaArguedas/Vargas Llosa: Dilemas y ensamblajesPalgrave Macmillan, 2013[38][39]
2014Stephanie SieburthSurvival Songs: Conchita Piquer’s Coplas and Franco’s Regime of TerrorUniversity of Toronto Press, 2014[40][41]
2015Enrique FernándezAnxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern SpainUniversity of Toronto Press, 2015[42][43]
Anne LambrightAndean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post–Shining Path PeruLiverpool University Press, 2015[44]
2016Nancy J. Gates MadsenTrauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship ArgentinaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2016[45][46]
2017B. Christine ArceMéxico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican WomenSUNY Press, 2017[47][48]
2018Maite CondeFoundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in BrazilUniversity of California Press,2018[49][50][51]
2019Nicholas R. JonesStaging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern SpainPenn State University Press, 2019[52][53]
2020Anna Kathryn KendrickHumanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century SpainNew York University Shanghai, 2020[54][55][56]
2021Samuel AmagoBasura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary SpainUniv. of Virginia Press, 2021[57]
2022Éric Morales-FranceschiniThe Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and LiberationUniversity of Virginia Press, 2022[58]

See also

References
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