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The Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize
Theme: Living in Monstrous Times

Deadline: January 15, 2025

The HiT Prize is looking for new translations of important literary and scholarly books from around the world. The winner will receive a total cash prize of $5,000 and publication by Northwestern University Press.

This year’s theme is “living in monstrous times”. We are especially interested in short-form creative fiction or nonfiction (short story or essay collections, novellas, etc.) that displays evocative, imaginative, and insightful approaches to what constitutes the monstrous.

Curating Worlds
Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature

Emma Bond

“Curating Worlds proposes an exhilarating new way of understanding contemporary world literature by examining its dynamic relationships to material practices that orient readers within spatial and temporal trajectories. Dazzling in its originality and ambition, and written in engaging prose, the work comes off so successfully that the reader hardly recognizes the audacious novelty of the project.”  —Rebecca Falkoff, University of Texas at Austin

Here Is a Figure
Grounding Literary Form

Sarah Dowling

“Here Is a Figure invites us to occupy grounding and grounded figures, lining itself up with the invitations to take the place of, to lie down and alongside of, to lie with which define Dowling’s fabulous archive. An engaging, accessible work of interdisciplinary criticism.” —Jennifer Doyle, author of Shadow of My Shadow

Radio Free Stein
Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays

Adam J. Frank

“With dazzling online recordings and scripts, Radio Free Stein takes readers backstage to reveal the inventive workshop process Adam Frank has used in productions of Gertrude Stein’s early voice plays.” —Linda Voris, American University

The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University

By Willy Thayer, translated by Bret Leraul

“Originally published in the wake of Chile’s brutal dictatorship and during the questionable transition to democracy, this deft translation of Thayer’s work for a new reading public is unexpectedly timely. The university is (again, still) in crisis, and we in the so-called Global North need to read and listen to our colleagues in the Global South.” —Erin Graff Zivin, author of Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading