American Pilgrim and Scholar Maryjane Dunn Recognized for Camino Contributions
American Pilgrim and Scholar Maryjane Dunn Recognized for Camino Contributions
Professor and writer Maryjane Dunn is the recipient of the 11th annual Aymeric Picaud International Prize for the dissemination and support of the Camino de Santiago.
Dunn, a lifetime member of American Pilgrims on the Camino, was recognized for her length and breadth of work related to the Camino. Her Camino journey began in 1979 as a pre-yellow-arrow pilgrim and continued later as founder of the Friends of the Road to Santiago newsletter (the precursor to American Pilgrims). Her Camino scholarship includes the first published English translations of Books I, II, and III of the Codex Calixtinus, regarded as the first guidebook to the Camino de Santiago.
The Aymeric Picaud International Prize is granted annually by the League of Associations of Journalists of the Camino Francés de Santiago, chaired this year by Navarra, the host association of the event. The award is named for Aymeric Picaud, the friar considered the first chronicler of the Camino de Santiago. On April 13, at the church of San Juan of Cizur Menor, Dunn was presented a facsimile edition of the Salamanca manuscript of the Liber Sancti Jacobi (Codex Calixtinus).
Previous recipients of this prestigious award include the Italian researcher Carmen Pugliese, the Italian journalist and essayist Paolo Caucci, the Korean reporter Kim Nam Hee, and the Spanish specialist Antón Pombo.
Read Diario de Santiago’s news coverage of Dunn’s recognition here.
View a brief video clip of the 2024 awards ceremony here:
