In addition to the main prize five honorable mentions of $250 each were also made:
* Emily Chauvin, an artist and writer from New Milford, Connecticut, for Theory/Practice: A Meta-Aesthetics Collection focusing on books of art-about-art, ranging from William Blake to Yoko Ono
* Elena Ganzevoort, of Durham, North Carolina, a former book editor, for Under the Peacock’s Feathers: Discovering Literature through Art Nouveau, a collection of Art Nouveau publishers’ bindings, including examples by celebrated fin-de-siècle book designers Albert Angus Turbayne and Hugh Thomson
* Kirin Gupta, a doctoral candidate and teacher in Alexandria, Virginia, for Femmes Fatales: The Violence and Power of Women Against Empire, books by and about women insurgents, guerrillas, and revolutionaries, exploring how gendered expectations shape the way that women’s long-standing participation in political violence is received
* Donna Sanders, 23, of New York City, a recent master’s graduate in English, for From The Red and the Black to The Man Without Qualities: 101 Texts in 101 Years, one reprint of one work of Western literature for every year between 1830 and 1930 to create a three-dimensional mosaic of the long 19th century
* Amelia Soth, a freelance writer and editor from Madison, Wisconsin, for Infinite Fiction: Novels of Classification, a collection of “books that play – in a vast range of ways – with the format of the reference work: the dictionary, the encyclopedia, the catalog, the travel guide, the textbook, the atlas.” Her collection ranges from established classics like Gustave Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas, Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, and Jorge Luis Borges’s Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius to more recent works by Milorad Pavić, Sophie Calle, and Roberto Bolaño.
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