The Ibsen Essay Prize
The Ibsen Essay prize is awarded annually for the best paper read on Ibsen by a graduate student or independent scholar at the SASS conference (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study). The prize is $1000, funded by the National Ibsen Committee of Norway and judged and administered by the Ibsen Society.
The winning essay for 2007, by Olivia Gunn, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, is "The (Meta)Architecture of Ibsen's 'Gjengangere'."
The winning essay for 2006, by Leonardo Lisi, a graduate student at Yale University, is "Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and the Aesthetics of Indirect Communication."