Each year, the Society awards the prestigious R. Gapper book prize for a book in the field of French studies or for comparative work in which French features significantly, published for the first time in the previous calendar year, by a scholar based in an institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It includes a cash prize of £2000, and expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference of the Society for French Studies. In addition, the award is publicized in French Studies, French Studies Bulletin: A Quarterly Supplement and on the Society’s website.

Entries for 2026 closed on Friday 28 August 2026.