I am delighted to inform you that the book by Daniele Cuneo and Elisa Ganser Pensare l’attore. Le fonti sanscrite (in Italian, see below) has recently been awarded the prestigious Colette Caillat Prize by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, one of the five academies of the Institut de France.

In this work, the authors trace, with solid philological methodology, the intellectual history of reflections on the actor by the elite Sanskrit authors who composed the normative texts called śāstra, with particular attention to Sanskrit texts belonging to the dramaturgical tradition of the Nāṭyaśāstra.

- Daniele Cuneo, Elisa Ganser, Pensare l’attore. Le fonti sanscrite. Milano: Unicopli, 2024.

I am making this announcement on behalf of the authors as I am fortunate enough to co-edit (with Cinzia Pieruccini) the series in which the volume was published.

Wishing everyone a wonderful summer,

Marco

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