Professor Manzalaoui Memorial Prize

Award descriptionPrizes totaling $4,000 have been made available through an endowment for graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding performance in a course in the language and/or literature of Middle English or the English Renaissance. Professor Manzalaoui (1924-2015) was a scholar, teacher and friend to generations of students in Egypt, England and at the University of British Columbia. Those UBC students who took his course on Chaucer and other medieval topics will remember him for his lively classroom readings and informative lectures. He worked hard to impress on all of his students the importance of literature and its relation to life. The prizes will be made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral studies.