The "Nabokov Online Journal" has announced a number of exciting initiatives in its new issue, including the award of new prizes for excellence in research. The Editorial Board hopes that all of you will take an active part in the decision making. The subscribers will ultimately decide whom to award the annual Best Scholarly Contribution in the area of Nabokov studies. 

Please refer to the "Announcement" page for further details (http://etc.dal.ca/noj/articles/volume5_6/2_Announcement%20of%20the%20New%20Prizes_PDF.pdf).

Best Book for the 2012 Award can be any work published between 2000 and 2011. We invite your nominations to be submitted to the Editor of the "Nabokov Online Journal" at yleving@gmail.com, by Friday, 16 March, 2012.  

This Editorial Board of NOJ will serve as a special expert committee and will make its recommendation after reviewing the list of nominations. The three short-listed titles will be announced on 23 March on the NABOKV-L. 

The final selection will be made by you, the listserv subscribers: you will be  casting a virtual ballot to the NABOKV-L editors. Professors Susan Elizabeth Sweeney and Stephen Blackwell have kindly agreed to make the final calculations to ensure the transparency of the process. 

The winner will be announced on 23 April, 2012. 

Yuri Leving