The Edinburgh Gadda Prize has a biennial international edition in Scotland and an interim junior edition in Italy,
Gadda Giovani -
www.gaddaprize.ed.ac.uk/italy.php.
The main Scottish edition is in four prizes, three of them scholarly –
Crolla Amato Gadda Prize, Gadda First and Novecento in Saggio – and one a junior award open to secondary schools in Scotland -
Scottish Gadda Juniors.
The Prize was launched in 2010, as part of the Decennial of the
Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies (EJGS),
www.gadda.ed.ac.uk.
Edinburgh 2012The next main edition will take place in 2012, with a closing date of 31 March 2012 for the scholarly prizes, 15 May 2012 for the junior prize, and events in Edinburgh as part of
il Gaddus Scholars in September 2012. A call for papers regarding the latter will be published in the New Year.
Prizes and EligibilityCrolla Amato Gadda Prize. Authors and publishers may enter works on Carlo Emilio Gadda published between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2011. Book-length monographs, commented editions, translations, substantial book chapters and journal articles are eligible. Works in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish are eligible.
Gadda First. Authors and publishers may enter a first work on Carlo Emilio Gadda. This must be either a submitted Doctoral Thesis or a published first work with a submission / publication date between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2011. Book-length monographs, commented editions, translations, substantial book chapters and journal articles are eligible. Works in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish are eligible. Authors must be 35 or under by the closing date.
Novecento in Saggio. Authors and publishers may enter book-length monographs, critical works and commented editions on one or more 20thC Italian creative prose writers. Submissions must have a publication date between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2011. Works in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish are eligible.
Edited works and proceedings are not eligible.
Scottish Gadda Juniors. Creative writing and other media competition open to secondary schools (S4, S5, S6) in Edinburgh and Glasgow and to Year 1 students at Edinburgh University, the latter group as a new pilot category. Stage 1. Schools and individuals may submit short detective stories or dialogues for the stage. Entries must be written in English, be no more than 2,000 words long and detect-discover-explore Italy through the setting. Stage 2. Other Media, Stage 2 of the Competition, is open to the Finalists only. Submissions may consist in a photo, film, poster, illustration or installation portfolio.
