McKay Book Prize

• 2021 McKay Book Prize Winners

  The Alexander G. McKay Prize for Vergilian Studies has been awarded to Susanna Morton Braund and Zara M. Torlone, co-editors of “Virgil and His Translators,” published by OUP in 2018.

  February 6, 2021

• Alexander G. McKay Prize competition for the best new book in Vergilian studies is now OPEN

  The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce the opening of the next competition for the Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies. The prize, which is…

  June 9, 2020

• McKay Book Prize, 2019

  The President and Board of Trustees of the Vergilian Society and the McKay Prize Committee are pleased to present the 2019 Alexander G. McKay Prize for Vergilian Studies to Sergio Casali…

  January 17, 2019

• Vergilian Society McKay Book Prize competition announcement

  The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce the opening of the next competition for the Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies. The prize, which is…

  April 10, 2018

• McKay Book Prize, 2017

  On behalf of the Vergilian Society, I am pleased to announce that the 2017 McKay Book Prize has been awarded to Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski for The Virgil Encyclopedia,…

  August 27, 2017

• McKay Book Prize, 2015

  Did Martial or Statius really believe that the Culex was by Vergil? Why does a work written on the death of Maecenas belong among the Virgilian pseudepigrapha?   Do ancient…

  August 27, 2017

• McKay Book Prize, 2017, Call for nominations

  McKay Book Prize Announcement The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce the opening of the next competition for the Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies.…

  October 18, 2015

• McKay Book Prize, 2015, Call for nominations

  McKay Book Prize Announcement The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce the opening of the next competition for the Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies.…

  March 20, 2013

• McKay Book Prize, 2013

  McKay Book Prize             The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce that the 2012 McKay Book Prize has been won by David Scott Wilson-Okamura, for his Virgil in the Renaissance…

  January 5, 2013

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  McKay Book Prize, 2011

  The Vergilian Society has never before given a named prize or award, but established this one in honor of our former President Alexander Gordon McKay, whose legacy represents the finest…

  January 5, 2011