HMC student wins prestigious University of Oxford prize

The Principal and Fellows of Harris Manchester College send their congratulations to third year student Aron Szocs (BA Literae Humaniores), who has been awarded the University of Oxford’s Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose 2024, for a passage from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse translated into Platonic-style Greek. This is the first time that the prize has been awarded to a Harris Manchester College student.

The Gaisford Prize was founded in 1855, in memory of Dr Thomas Gaisford (Regius Professor of Greek 1811–1855). For most of its history, it has been awarded for classical Greek verse and prose. Today Gaisford Prizes are awarded for verse, prose, and dissertations at the undergraduate and masters level.