“Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood” (Brill, 2019) edited by Marijan Dović (ZRC Zasu, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies) and by Jón Karl Helgason (University of Iceland) received the first edition of the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research in 2021. 

 Key topics: Cultural Sainthood, Periphery of Europe, National Poets, France Prešeren (1800–1849) Slovenian national poet, Jonas Hallgrimsson (1807-1845) Icelandic national poet, Dante and Petrarch, Canonization of Architects and Painters, the Long Nineteenth Century