# Katherine Singer Kovács Prize

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. 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. The awarding of the prize is managed by a Prize Selection Committee of the Modern Language Association.

## Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Winners

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