TUFS Research Fellow Wins "Cesare Pavese Prize"

December 13, 2013

TUFS research fellow, Marie Kokubo (an acquisitor of Ph. D. under the cotutelle, the agreement of joint supervision for a doctoral thesis between TUFS and University of Bologna) won “Cesare Pavese Prize (Premio Cesare Pavese)” this year for her doctoral thesis “Pavese, Literature and Film: new interpretation of American myth (Pavese tra letteratura e cinema: nuove prospettive sul mito Americano).”

The Pavese Prize is the authoritative literary prize which is given every year to poems or critical essays presented in the preceding year in order to honor Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), the representative novelist of Italian Neorealism Literature. As the 30th recipient of this prize, people can find the names of Italian veteran novelists such as Claudio Magris (a novelist and central Europe literary scholar), who is considered as the strongest nominee for the Nobel Prize for literature, Sebastiano Vassalli (a novelist), Beppe Severgnini (a novelist and journalist), and Guido Zavanone (a poet).

Meanwhile, Ms. Kokubo submitted her doctoral thesis last year according to the cotutelle above, supported by the ITP Program of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She received the collaborative academic degree through the final examination at the University of Bologna and now she is engaged in collaborative studies offered by the Intellectual Rotation Program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science with the university as a TUFS research fellow.

  
the picture of the award ceremony

At the house museum where the author was born in Santo Stefano Belbo (Piedmont region), the author’s hometown

[translated by TUFS English major students]