Awards
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Winner of the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association
Shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship, Jewish Book Council
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
One of Radio Times’s “books of the year from our columnists”
One of The New York Times' Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the HeartWinner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American PublishersWinner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: PoliticsOne of Kirkus Reviews Best Big-Picture History Books of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020
A New Scientist "Don't Miss" BookOne of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America
Winner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies