Since 2000, the AATSEEL Publications Committee gives annual awards for scholarly contributions to Slavic language are given in various disciplines.
2025 Book Awards
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| Best First Book |
Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity |
Karen Underhill |
| Best Book in Literary Studies |
The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound |
Stephanie Sandler |
| The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies |
An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film |
Dustin Condren |
| Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume |
Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917 |
Philip Gleissner and Bradley A. Gorski (ed.) |
| Best Translation of Prose into English |
Red Pyramid: Selected Stories by Vladimir Sorokin |
Max Lawton |
| Best Translation of Poetry into English |
To the Letter by Tomasz Różycki |
Mira Rosenthal |
| Best Contribution in Pedagogy |
The Pushkin Project: Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth |
David Bethea |
| Best Contribution in Second Language Acquisition |
The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics |
Danko Šipka and Wayles Browne (ed.) |
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2024 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best First Book |
Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin |
Aglaya Glebova |
| Best Book in Literary Studies |
Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century |
Gabriella Safran |
| The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies |
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism |
Julie Cassiday |
| Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume |
World Literature in the Soviet Union (ed.) |
Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery & Rossen Djagalov |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
Firebird (translated with intro) |
Alissa Valles |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond |
Ostap Kin & John Hennessy |
| Best Book in Pedagogy |
Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars |
Elena Pedigo Clark |
| Best Book in Second Language Acquisition |
Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students |
Anna Kudyma, Irina Six & Irina Walsh [2] |
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2023 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Cultural Studies |
Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland |
Juliane Fürst |
| Best Book in Literary Studies |
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity |
Rory Finnin |
| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media |
Alyssa DeBlasio |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics or Second Language Acquisition |
The Art of Teaching Russian |
Evgeny Dengub |
| Best First Book |
How the Soviet Jew Was Made |
Sasha Senderovich |
| Best Poetry Translation into English |
For the Shrew (trans.) |
Anna Sarkisovna Glazova; Alex Niemi (translator) |
| Best Prose Translation into English |
Kin |
Miljenko Jergović; Russell Scott Valentino (translator) [3] |
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2022 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary Studies |
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture |
Edward Tyerman [4] |
| The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies |
Men Out of Focus |
Marko Dumančić [5] |
| Best First Book |
Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia |
Colleen Lucey |
| Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume |
Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons |
Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian |
| Best Translation into English |
Temptation |
Mark Baczoni (translator) |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union |
Diana Forker & Lenore Grenoble |
| Best Book in Pedagogy (1) |
Etazhi: Second Year Russian Language and Culture |
Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova |
| Best Book in Pedagogy (2) |
Transformative Language Learning and Teaching |
Betty Lou Leaver, Dan Davidson, and Christine Campbell |
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- The committee presented two awards in the Pedagogy category in 2022, as it was skipped during 2021
2021 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary Studies |
Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World |
Thomas P. Hodge |
| Best Book in Cultural Studies |
Faster, Stronger, Higher, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture |
Tim Harte |
| Best First Book |
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film |
Ana Hedberg Olenina |
| Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume |
Comintern Aesthetics |
Amelia M. Glaser & Steven S. Lee |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow |
Andrew Kahn & Irina Reyfman [6] |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov |
Ainsley Morse & Philip Redko |
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2020 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary Studies |
The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond |
Galin Tihanov |
| Best Book in Cultural Studies |
Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism |
Eliot Borenstein [7] |
| Best First Book |
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great |
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev [8] |
| Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume |
Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action |
Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday & Boris Wolfson |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
EEG: A Novel by Daša Drndić |
Celia Hawkesworth (trans.) |
| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Rodnaya Rech': An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian |
Irina Dubinina & Olesya Kisselev |
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2019 Book Awards
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Work |
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| Best Book in Cultural Studies |
To See Paris and Die |
Eleonory Gilburd [9] |
| Best First Book |
State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin |
Rebecca Reich |
| Best Edited Volume |
Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 |
Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska & Przemysław Czapliński (eds.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation |
The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts With Other Forgeries of the Czech Revival |
David L. Cooper (ed. & trans.) |
| Best Literary Translation |
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz |
Bill Johnston (trans.) |
| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Panorama |
Benjamin Rifkin, Evgeny Dengub & Susanna Nazarova |
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2018 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary Scholarship |
Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe |
Benjamin Paloff |
| Best Book in Cultural Studies |
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad |
Alexis Peri |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya |
Nora Seligman Favorov (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation |
Gulag Letters by Arsenii Formakov |
Emily D. Johnson (ed. & trans.) |
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2017 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890 |
Molly Brunson |
| Best Book in Literary Criticism |
Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature |
Emily Van Buskirk |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad |
Polina Barskova (ed.); Translators: Ben Felker-Quinn, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Jason Wagner, Rebekah Smith, Anand Dibble, Ainsley Morse & Charles Swank |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
The Alexander Medvedkin Reader |
Translators: Nikita Lary & Jay Leyda |
| Best Book in Pedagogy |
Между нами |
Lynn DeBenedette, William J. Comer, Alla Smyslova & Jonathan Perkins |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian |
Andrii Danylenko |
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2016 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence |
Ann Komaromi |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov |
Angela Rodel (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
A Science Not for the Earth by Yevgeny Baratynsky |
Rawley Grau (trans.) |
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2015 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination |
Luba Golburt |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
Onomatopoeia in Czech |
Masako Ueda Fidler |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
High Tide by Inga Ābele |
Kaija Straumanis (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
Moscow and Muscovites by Vladimir Gilyarovsky |
Brendan Kiernan (trans.) |
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2014 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia |
Katia Dianina |
| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (revised ed.) |
Sophia Lubensky |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
"I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms |
Anthony Anemone & Peter Scotto (selected, trans. & ed.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Propp |
Sibelan Forrester (ed. & trans.) |
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2013 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Discovering Albanian 1: Textbook, Workbook, Audio Supplement |
Linda Mëniku & Héctor Campos |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Avant-Garde |
Nina Gurianova |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
A Herzen Reader by Alexander Herzen |
Kathleen Parthé (trans.) |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
The Syntax of Russian |
John Frederick Bailyn |
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2012 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture |
Alla Nedashkivska |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War |
Kristin Roth-Ey |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski |
Bill Johnston (translator) (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz by Tadeusz Różewicz |
Joanna Trzeciak (trans.) |
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2011 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Using Russian Vocabulary |
Terence Wade |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
The Syntax of Argument Structure |
Leonard H. Babby |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia |
Serguei Alex Oushakine |
| Best Literary Translation into English |
The Book of Things: Poems by Aleš Šteger |
Brian Henry (trans.) |
| Best Scholarly Translation into English |
No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter by Ariadna Efron |
Diane Nemec Ignashev (ed. & trans.) |
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2010 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
A Day Without Lying (День без вранья) by Viktoria Tokareva |
William J. Comer (ed.) |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
Celtic and Slavic and the Great Migrations: Reconstructing Linguistic Prehistory |
Jadranka Gvozdanović |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture |
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian |
| Best Translation into English |
The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov |
Anne O. Fisher (trans.) |
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2009 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook With Exercises and Basic Grammar |
Ronelle Alexander & Ellen Elias-Bursać |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
The Curzon Bible |
Cynthia Vakareliyska |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic |
Roman Koropeckyj |
| Best Translation into English |
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov |
Marian Schwartz (trans.) |
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2008 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
The RAILS: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series Project |
Benjamin Rifkin, Shannon Spasova, Viktoria Thorstensson, Nina Familiant & Dianna Murphy |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars |
Neil Bermel |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies |
The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism |
John Randolph |
| Best Translation into English |
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov |
Stephen Pearl (trans.) |
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2007 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Rozmovljajmo! (Let's Talk!): A Basic Ukrainian Course with Polylogs, Grammar, and Conversation Lessons |
Robert A. DeLossa, R. Robert Koropeckyj, Robert Romanchuk & Alexandra Isaievych Mason |
| Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics |
Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine |
Laada Bilaniuk |
| Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism |
The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva |
Catherine Ciepiela |
| Best Translation into English |
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov |
Robert Chandler (trans.) |
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2006 Book Awards
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Work |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Macedonian = Makedonski jazik: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students (2nd ed.) |
Christina E. Kramer |
| Best Book in Slavic Linguistics |
A Reference Grammar of Russian |
Alan Timberlake |
| Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism |
Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture |
Boris Gasparov |
| Best Translation into English |
Diary, 1901–1969 by Kornei Chukovsky |
Michael Henry Heim (trans.); |
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2005 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (1) |
The Case Book for Russian |
Laura A. Janda & Stephen J. Clancy |
| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (2) |
Modern Russian Culture: A Course of Ideas and Images (multimedia CD-ROM/DVD) |
Lauren G. Leighton |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croat and its Disintegration |
Robert D. Greenberg |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship |
Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 |
Stephen Lovell |
| Best Translation into English |
Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli |
Bill Johnston (trans.) |
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- The committee presented two awards in the Language Pedagogy category in 2005.
2004 Book Awards
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Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Russian for Russians |
Olga Kagan, Tatiana Akishina & Richard Robin |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
A Grammar of Contemporary Polish |
Oscar E. Swan |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship |
Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia |
Michael S. Gorham |
| Best Translation into English |
Soul by Andrei Platonov |
Translators: Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson with Jane Chamberlain, Olga Kouznetsova and Eric Naiman |
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2003 Book Awards
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Work |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language |
Eloise M. Boyle & Genevra Gerhart (eds.) |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
Reanimated Voices: Speech Reporting in a Historical-Pragmatic Perspective |
Daniel E. Collins |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship |
Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime |
Anthony Olcott |
| Best Translation into English |
Milosz's ABC's by Czesław Miłosz |
Madeline G. Levine (trans.) |
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2002 Book Awards
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Work |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
Business Russian (web resource) |
ACTR |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language |
Marc Leland Greenberg |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (1) |
Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul |
Dale E. Peterson |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (2) |
Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire |
Gabriella Safran |
| Best Translation into English |
Selected Essays by Vyacheslav Ivanov |
Robert Bird (trans.); Michael Wachtel (ed.) |
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- The committee presented two awards in the Literary/Cultural Scholarship category in 2002.
2001 Book Awards
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| Prize |
Work |
Winner(s) |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures |
Olga Kagan, Benjamin Rifkin & Susan Bauckus (eds.) |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach |
Sue Brown |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship |
Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1929 |
Eliot Borenstein |
| Best Translation into English |
Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky by Nikolay Zabolotsky |
Daniel Weissbort (trans.); |
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2000 Book Awards
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Work |
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| Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy |
12 Chairs Interactive (CD-ROM) and related multimedia projects |
Slava Paperno |
| Best Book in Linguistics |
A Handbook of Slavic Clitics |
Steven Franks & Tracy Holloway King |
| Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship |
The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia |
Julie A. Buckler |
| Best Translation into English |
Road-Side Dog by Czesław Miłosz |
Czesław Miłosz & Robert Hass (trans.) |
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