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RPW Center announces 2023 Warren-Brooks Award winner
- Robert Penn Warren Center
- Monday, March 4th, 2024
Dr. Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2023 Warren-Brooks Award, presented each year by the Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University. The award was established by the Warren family to honor an outstanding work of literary scholarship that embodies the spirit, scope, and integrity of the work produced by Warren and his frequent collaborator, Brooks.
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter, written by Dr. Morson and published by Harvard University Press, has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for outstanding literary scholarship and criticism. The book award selection committee was deeply impressed by the way in which this book represents a lifetime’s reading, research, and thinking about Russian literature, culture, and politics. The committee especially responded to the book’s attempts to capture the distinctiveness of the Russian literary tradition.
Contact: Nancy Dinan, rpw.center@wku.edu