Members :

Professor E.V. Ramakrishnan (India), Chair – evrama51@gmail.com.

E.V. Ramakrishnan is a bilingual poet, critic and translator with several books in the areas of comparative literature studies, postcolonial studies and translation studies. He is Professor Emeritus of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. He is a Vice-President of ICLA.

The two members of the Jury are: Professor Rita Terezinha Schmidt, Professor in Literature and Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Prof. Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London.

Professor Rita T. Schmidt has been a member of the AILC-ICLA Executive since 2019. Her areas of research include feminist theories, decolonial perspectives in Latin American and Brazilian literary historiography, particularly of the XIX century, by means of re-editions of novels and works of poetry. She also works in the areas of American Literature, Theory and Comparative Literature. Email: ritaschmidt51@gmail.com

Professor Wen-Chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London. She is Fellow of the British Academy and Academician of Academia Sinica. A native speaker of Arabic and Chinese, she has been working towards Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies, including Silk and Road Studies. Email: wo@soas.ac.uk.

Please visit the Balakian Prize page for more information on the Prize, including eligibility, deadlines and how to submit.

The reports of the Balakian Prize Committee can be downloaded below:

Balakian Prize Committee Report 2022
Balakian Prize Committee Report 2019-21
Balakian Prize Report 2019