2026 Dix-Neuf Prize

The editors of Dix-Neuf are pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Dix-Neuf Prize, which recognizes an outstanding article published in each year’s volume of the journal. “Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu” by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe of Oxford University appeared in volume 29, issue 2. The article is freely available here.

The prize jury praised the work’s “great rigour and clarity” and concluded that Lunn-Rockliffe’s article “will be of interest to a wide readership because it does not just deal with Hugo’s writing but uses these to excellent effect to shed light on wider preoccupations and how the period grapples with the trauma of revolution/The Revolution”.

We wish to thank the members of the jury, Dr Nigel Harkness, Dr Cheryl Krueger, and Dr Mary Orr, for their time and expertise.

Please join us in congratulating Dr Lunn-Rockcliffe on her achievement.

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In 2024, the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes launched a new prize for the best article published each calendar year in the journal Dix-Neuf. 

The judging panel is drawn from the Editorial and Advisory Boards of the journal.

Criteria for the award of the Dix-Neuf Prize include originality, clarity of argument, critical use of evidence, lucidity of writing style, relevance of the article to the journal’s scope and aims, and potential wider impact of the article on the academic community. The prize, in the amount of £500, is funded by Taylor & Francis.

Previous Winners:

2025 Dix-Neuf Prize

Winner: Raisa Rexer, “The Other Feminism: Literature, Sex and the Novels of René Maizeroy in Fin-de-siècle France”, 28.2 (2024), 122-42

Highly commended: Bastien Craipain, “The Laws of Indiscipline: Anténor Firmin, Racial Justice, and the Case for a Humanist Anthropology”, 28.1 (2024), 86-105