The Ibsen Essay Prize
The Ibsen Essay prize is awarded annually for the best paper read on Ibsen by a graduate student or independent scholar at the SASS conference (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study). The prize is $1000, funded by the National Ibsen Committee of Norway and judged and administered by the Ibsen Society.
The winning essays for 2009 are by Giuliano D'Amico of the University of Oslo, for his paper "Felix Bloch Erben and the Introduction of Ibsen in Europe" and Kyle Korynta of the University of Washington, for his paper "The Falk Villa."
Download the essay by Giuliano D'Amico
Download the essay by Kyle Korynta
The winning essay for 2006, by Leonardo Lisi, a graduate student at Yale University, is "Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and the Aesthetics of Indirect Communication."