International Comparative Literature Association

The International Comparative Literature Association - ICLA) (French Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée - AILC), founded in 1954, is an international organization for international research in the field of comparative literature. In 2004, the Association, in collaboration with the Anna Balakian Foundation, established the Anna Balakian Prize to promote scholarly research by younger comparatists and to honor the memory of Professor Anna Balakian, a great comparatist. The first prizewinner was announced in 2007 in the XVIIIth Congress of the ICLA AILC in Rio de Janeiro. Recipients of the Prize are:

2007 (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Line Henriksen. Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics (New York: Rodopi, 20006).
2010 (in Seoul, South Korea)
Karen L. Thornber. Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard Asia Center Publications Program; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2009).
Hans-Joachim Backe. Stukturen und Funktionen des Erzählens im Computerspiel: Eine typologische Einführung (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008).
2013 (in Paris, France)
Aurélia Hetzel. La reine de Saba. Des Traditions au mythe littéraire (Paris: Garnier, 2012). (prizewinner)
Shun-liang Chao. Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (Oxford: Legenda, 2010). (honorable mention)