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.
Read MoreAlexander 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 accompanied by a cash award of $500 or a life membership in the Vergilian Society (valued at $800), is awarded every other year to the…
Read MoreMcKay 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 for his book Virgilio, Eneide 2. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Few books of poetry are more iconic than Aeneid 2. Daring to give the sequel…
Read MoreVergilian 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 accompanied by a cash award of $500 or a life membership in the Vergilian Society (valued at $800), is awarded every other year to the…
Read MoreMcKay 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, published in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell. Just as in Virgil’s poetry, labor and amor were clearly the driving forces of this remarkable tribute to Virgil. In…
Read MoreMcKay 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 fakes actually intend to deceive? These are just some of the fascinating questions given fresh and stimulating answers by this year’s winner of the Alexander…
Read MoreMcKay 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. The prize, which is accompanied by a cash award of $500 or a life membership in the Vergilian Society (valued at $750), will be awarded…
Read MoreMcKay 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. The prize, which is accompanied by a cash award of $500 or a life membership in the Vergilian Society (valued at $750), will be awarded…
Read MoreMcKay 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 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). For many years, people have noted that Virgil played a fundamental role in the development of Renaissance culture, but that…
Read MoreMcKay 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 traditions of Vergilian scholarship and, in the larger sense, of the humanities at its best. We view this prize as an extension of his legacy.…
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