Howard R. Marraro Prize
Competition in 2024 for Works Published in 2023
Open Only to Members of the Association
The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to enter the competition for the twenty-eighth Howard R. Marraro Prize. The prize is awarded each even-numbered year to the author of an outstanding scholarly book or essay on any phase of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. For the next competition, the committee solicits submissions of works published in 2023 by current members of the association. The prize, which consists of a cash award from the Howard R. Marraro Endowment Fund and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in January 2025.
Authors or publishers who wish to submit a work should send it in print and electronic formats. Send a PDF and a letter of identification that confirms the author's membership in the MLA to awards@mla.org. Send four print copies to the Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association, 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004. In the case of a born-digital publication, send the relevant media or URL and a letter identifying the work to awards@mla.org. Publishers may submit more than one title. Provided they meet eligibility requirements, books that have been entered in this competition may also compete for the James Russell Lowell Prize, the MLA Prize for a First Book, or the MLA Prize for an Edited Collection. Entries may be submitted at any time but must be received by 1 May 2024. The winning author will be contacted in September, and a public announcement will be made in early December. Because of the volume of submissions, we regret that we are unable to contact each entrant individually.
For further information, write the coordinator of book prizes (awards@mla.org).
Note: From 1996 to 2000, the Howard R. Marraro Prize was awarded jointly with the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Literary Studies, which is now awarded separately in odd-numbered years.
Past winners of this prize