Winner of the 2026 La corónica International Book Award:
Anita Savo
Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
(U of Toronto P, 2024)
Anita Savo, assistant professor of Spanish at Boston University, is the winner of the 2026 La corónica International Book Award. Savo’s monograph, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority, is an important contribution to the study of medieval authorship. She brings together, with remarkable clarity, literary analysis and manuscript culture to show how Juan Manuel crafted an authorial identity that feels strikingly modern within the context of 14th-century Castile. Savo convincingly argues that Juan Manuel’s self-fashioning was not merely a literary pose but a strategy that shaped his contemporary reception and played a decisive role in securing his place in literary history. The book reshapes the way we think about what it meant to be an “author” in a pre-print world.
