Prof Marius Turda won the 2025 essay prize awarded by Romania’s most prestigious literary journal, Observator Cultural, for his book In Search of the Perfect Romanian (Polirom 2024, 2nd. ed. 2025) https://polirom.ro/historia/8557-%C3%AEn-c%C4%83utarea-rom%C3%A2nului-perfect.html
