"The Literary Insight Award is designed to encourage students to explore literature in translation in the hope they might discover the extraordinary richness of literature written in another country and in another time. It invites them to discover how despite historical and cultural differences, such literature addresses enduring questions that remain a part of our contemporary human condition."

Availability

This award is being offered for Spring semester 2012.

Award

$350 for First Place and $150 for Honorable Mention to be used toward tuition

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

• must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 for undergraduates or 3.5 for graduate students
• must be junior or senior English majors or minors; or must be enrolled in an English graduate program
• must be enrolled as full-time students (12+ units for undergraduates or 8+ units for graduates)

How to Apply

Applicants must submit all of the following materials to Calaveras 103 by the department deadline:

• English department Scholarship Applicant Information Form
• Literary Insight Award application form
• A 1,200-1,500 word essay on one of the following novels:
  • Homer: Iliad (Classical Greece)
  • Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spain)
  • de Lafayette: The Princess of Cleves (France)
  • Goethe: Faust (Germany)
  • Stendhal: The Red and the Black (France)
  • Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (Russia)
  • Dostoevsky: The Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)
  • Tolstoy: Anna Karenina or The Death of Ivan Ilych (Russia)
  • Gide: The lmmoralist (France)
  • Proust: Swan's Way (France)
  • Kafka: The Trial or The Castle or The Metamorphosis (Czechoslovakia)
  • Mann: Death in Venice (Germany)
  • Hesse: Steppenwolf (Germany)
  • Unamuno: Saint Manuel El Bueno (Spain)
  • Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ (Greece)
  • Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Columbia)
  • Solzhenitsen: The First Circle (Russia)
  • Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czechoslovakia)