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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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 Heart
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
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020One of The Sunday Times' Best Art Books of 2020
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1996
Honorable Mention for the IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Critics' Picks
One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020
Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers