July 15, 2019

Dr. Fiore Awarded Edinburgh Gadda Prize for her book Pre-Occupied Spaces

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In May 2019 Teresa Fiore’s book Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies was assigned the Runner Up Gadda Prize.

Granted by the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Gadda Prize provides an international platform to recognise scholarly brilliance in Contemporary Italian Studies. One hundred forty-seven scholars have entered the Prize this year. Fiore’s book was selected among 93 monographs in the Established Scholars category.

Scholars in this category among which Fiore’s book was selected the Runner Up Winner included Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fabio Camilletti, Teresa Fiore, Gaia Giuliani, Patrizia Guarnieri and Giuliana Minghelli. Jurers have worked on the Submission for three months, casting three electronic votes in order to arrive at a Longlist (51), Shortlist (20) and Winners (6) which the latter being accounced on May 21, 2019.

The Award Ceremony took place at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Wednesday 26 June.

The prize was bestowed on the recipients by Pulitzer prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, the keynote speaker for the night.

fiore gadda prize edinburgh — Teresa Fiore, Tony Crolla (sponsor of Gadda Prize) and Federica Pedriali (Professor of Modern Italian Studies)

The book had previously received an Honorable Mention at the 2018 MLA Marraro Prize in Comparative Literature involving Italian, was nominated for the 2018 Bridge Book Award and had been awarded the 2017 AAIS/American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in the 20th-21st centuries category.