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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

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Year Author Title Publisher, date Refs
1989 Roberto González Echevarría Myth and archive: a theory of Latin American narrative Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990 [4][5]
1990 Regina Harrison Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture University of Texas Press,1989 [6][7]
1991 George Mariscal Contradictory Subjects Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture Cornell University Press, 1991 [8]
William Rowe, Vivian Schelling Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America Verso Books, 1991 [9]
1992 Antonio Benítez-Rojo The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective Duke University Press, 1992 [10]
Francine Masiello Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina University of Nebraska Press, 1992 [4][11]
1993 Margarita Zamora Reading Columbus University of California Press, 1993 [12][13]
1994 Candace Slater Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination University of Chicago Press, 1994 [12]
1995 Walter D. Mignolo The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization University of Michigan Press, 1995 [14]
1996 Diana Sorensen Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture University of Texas Press, 1996 [12]
1997 Kathryn Joy McKnight The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671–1742 University of Massachusetts Press, 1997 [15]
1998 Frances Aparicio Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures Wesleyan University Press, 1997 [16]
Rebecca Haidt Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture St. Martin's Press, 1998 [17]
1999 Idelber Avelar The untimely present Duke University Press, 1999 [18][4]
2000 Catherine Julien Reading Inca history University of Iowa press, 2000 [19][4]
2001 Georgina Dopico Black Perfect wives, other women Duke Univ. Press, 2001 [20][4]
Francine R. Masiello The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis Duke University Press, 2001 [21][22]
2002 Noël Valis The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain Duke University Press, 2003 [23]
2003 Diana Taylor The archive and the repertoire Duke University Press, 2003 [24]
2004 Sibylle Fischer Modernity disavowed Duke University Press, 2004 [4][25]
2005 Rubén Gallo Mexican modernity: The avant-garde and the technological revolution MIT Press, 2005 [26]
2006 William P. Childers Transnational Cervantes University of Toronto Press, 2006 [27]
2007 Rolena Adorno The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative Yale University Press, 2008 [28][29]
2008 Nicolás Wey Gómez The tropics of empire: Why Columbus sailed south to the Indies MIT Press, 2008 [30][4]
2009 Lisa Voigt Writing captivity in the early modern Atlantic University of North Carolina Press, 2009 [31][4]
2010 Stephanie Merrim The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture University of Texas Press, 2010 [32][33]
2011 E. Michael Gerli Celestina and the Ends of Desire University of Toronto Press, 2010 [34][35]
2012 Joanne Rappaport
Tom Cummins		 Beyond the Lettered City Duke University Press, 2012 [36][37]
2013 Mabel Moraña Arguedas/Vargas Llosa: Dilemas y ensamblajes Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 [38][39]
2014 Stephanie Sieburth Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer’s Coplas and Franco’s Regime of Terror University of Toronto Press, 2014 [40][41]
2015 Enrique Fernández Anxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern Spain University of Toronto Press, 2015 [42][43]
Anne Lambright Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post–Shining Path Peru Liverpool University Press, 2015 [44]
2016 Nancy J. Gates Madsen Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina University of Wisconsin Press, 2016 [45][46]
2017 B. Christine Arce México’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women SUNY Press, 2017 [47][48]
2018 Maite Conde Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil University of California Press,2018 [49][50][51]
2019 Nicholas R. Jones Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain Penn State University Press, 2019 [52][53]
2020 Anna Kathryn Kendrick Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain New York University Shanghai, 2020 [54][55][56]
2021 Samuel Amago Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain Univ. of Virginia Press, 2021 [57]
2022 Éric Morales-Franceschini The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and Liberation University of Virginia Press, 2022 [58]

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References

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  2. ^ Reinstein, Gila (8 December 2008). "Professor Rolena Adorno Wins MLA's Kovacs Prize". YaleNews, Office of Public Affairs & Communications. University of Yale.
  3. ^ "Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Selection Committee". Modern Language Association. New York: Modern Language Association of Americ. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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  8. ^ Mariscal, George (1991). Contradictory Subjects : Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501728495.
  9. ^ Lehmann, David (October 1993). "William Rowe and Vivian Schelling, Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London and New York: Verso, 1991), pp. ix+243, £10.95". Journal of Latin American Studies. 25 (3): 692–694. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00007008.
  10. ^ Benítez Rojo, Antonio (1992). The repeating island : the Caribbean and the postmodern perspective (1 ed.). Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8205-8.
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  13. ^ Fares, Gustavo (1 October 1994). "Zamora, Margarita. "Reading Columbus"". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 28 (3). University of Alabama: 477.
  14. ^ Alcoff, Linda Martin; Mendieta, Eduardo (8 July 2000). Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4616-6667-7.
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  38. ^ Moraña, Mabel (2016). Arguedas/Vargas Llosa : dilemmas and assemblages. New directions in Latino American cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137575227. OCLC 1061560930.
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  40. ^ Sieburth, Stephanie Anne (2014). Survival songs : Conchita Piquer's coplas and Franco's regime of terror. Toronto Iberic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442661448. OCLC 1139918748.
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  42. ^ Fernández, Enrique (2015). Anxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern Spain. Toronto Iberic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442618893. OCLC 898894376.
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  45. ^ Gates-Madsen, Nancy J (2016). Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling : listening to silences in postdictatorship Argentina. Critical human rights. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299307608. OCLC 1019840121.
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  47. ^ Arce, B Christine (2016). Mexico's Nobodies : the Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women. Genders in the global south. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9781438463599. OCLC 967876359.
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  49. ^ Conde, Maite (2019). Foundational films : early cinema and modernity in Brazil. California scholarship online. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520964884. OCLC 1102767296.
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  51. ^ Conde, Maite (August 2018). Foundational Films by Maite Conde - Paperback - University of California Press. Ucpress.edu. ISBN 9780520290990. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  52. ^ Jones, Nicholas R. (2019). Staging Habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755, 3. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0271083940. OCLC 1269269005.
  53. ^ "Nicholas Rashad Jones '05 Awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacks prize by the MLA | Haverford College". Haverford.edu. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  54. ^ Kendrick, Anna Kathryn (2020). Humanizing childhood in early twentieth-century Spain. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, 30. Legenda. ISBN 978-1-78188-543-7. OCLC 1144101115.
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  57. ^ "Samual Amago". Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. University of Virginia. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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