We are happy to announce that CLIC member Cedric Van Dijck's Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press) has won the BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature.
The jury, which included Prof. Ziad Elmarsafy, Prof. Francesca Orsini, Dr Ian Ellison, Dr Jessica Sequeira, and Dr Joanna Rzepa, commended the book for offering a fascinating study that revisits how experimental forms of writing captured the unravelling of the mind due to World War One. Moving away from conventional accounts of modernism and shell shock, this highly original monograph pays attention to printed artefacts from numerous archives to offer new readings of a wide range of war experiences from canonical and less well-known authors from the UK and Europe, as well as writers in colonial contexts.
Source: https://bcla.org/cedric-van-dijck-awarded-bcla-first-book-prize-2025/
