Alan Tu ’23 is the winner of the 2020 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. The prize, which has been awarded annually to Harvard College students since 1977, recognizes students who collect books and encourages others to start collecting. A sophomore from Rochester, New York, Tu concentrates in Physics and plans to pursue Statistics and German in his secondary studies.

In his essay, “Found in Translation: Contemporary World Fiction Revisited,” Tu argues that...