Our warmest congratulations to our advisory board member Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo), who has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the research project JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel . The project offers a valuable continuation of Karin’s previous work on the early modern novel by investigating how literary games in the French seventeenth-century salons contributed to establishing the novel as a genre. The project will combine a more traditional literary approach with anthropology and creative writing and, among other things, make students engage in some of these 400 years-old games. Anyone interested in not only the early history of the novel, but also narrative processes at large, are advised to keep an eye on this fascinating project.