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Award Amount: €2,000 cash award
Presentation Venue: 33rd AKSE Conference in Bucharest (24–27 June 2027)
Nomination Deadline: 31 December 2026
Korean Studies publications in any European language including English are eligible.
Publication Requirements:
- Scholarly monographs centred on Korea
- Academic, annotated translations of original Korean sources (contemporary literary translations are not included)
- Edited volumes
- University-level textbooks
- Published within the last five years (since 2022)
- Apt to raise interest in the academic study of Korea beyond the confines of Korean Studies proper.
Ineligible Categories:
- Dissertations, exhibition catalogues, poetry, fiction, travel books, memoirs, autobiographies, etc.
Author Requirements:
- Must be Korean Studies scholars affiliated with a European institution (excluding visiting scholars) or independent scholars based in Europe.
- Authors need not be AKSE members.
- Works by members of the AKSE Council cannot be nominated.
Nominator Requirements:
- Must be AKSE members
- Must hold (or be retired from) an academic position or be otherwise an established member of the academic community
- Self-nominations are possible
Required Submission Materials:
- PDF of the original publication
- English language abstract of at least 200 words (if the publication is not in English and does not carry an English abstract of this length)
- Completed nomination form.
Download the nomination form:
AKSE Book Prize 2027 – Nomination Form: https://koreanstudies.eu/grants-fellowships-epel/akse-book-prize/
Nominations must reach the AKSE president by 31 December 2026 to be considered for the 2027 award.
Submission Contact:
Please send all documents to both of the following e-mail addresses:
vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no (Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov / Pak Noja, AKSE President)
