Narrative Society Awards
Each year, the Society presents scholars in the field with awards for the best book published the previous year, the best article in Narrative, and the best graduate student paper given at the Annual Conference. In addition and when warranted, the Society also awards The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award to those scholars who have made substantial and sustained contributions to the field of narrative studies.
Below are the current open calls for nominations:
Recent Awards
The 2019 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2019 Booth Award winner is Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan.
The 2018 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award
Kent Puckett, Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2016).
The 2018 James Phelan Award for the Best Essay in Narrative in 2017
Natalya Bekhta, “We-Narratives: The Distinctiveness of Collective Narration” (May 2017)
Honorable Mention: Katherine Binhammer: "The Story Within the Story of Sentimental Fiction" (January 2017)
Honorable Mention: Werner Wolf: “Transmedial Narratology: Theoretical Foundations and Some Applications (Fiction, Single Pictures, Instrumental Music)” (October 2017)
The Alan Nadel Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2017 Narrative Conference in Lexington, Kentucky
Valentina Montero-Román, University of Michigan, “Black Women with ‘Real Brains’: Historicizing Unreliable Focalization in Nella Larsen’s Passing.”
The 2017 Graduate Student International Travel Awards
Kate Burling, University of Cape Town
Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University
Anna Ovaska, University of Helsinki
Rik Spanjers, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis