Awards & Recognition
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. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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![The Ruined Elegance](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691167503.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Library Journal’s Best Books 2015: Poetry
![The Mushroom at the End of the World](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400873548.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015
![GDP](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169859.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of FA-mag.com’s Books of the Year 2014
One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014
One of Minnpost.com’s ‘Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list’ 2014
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014
![e: The Story of a Number](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691168487.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Mozart's Grace](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691168067.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
![Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169682.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
![The Transformation of the World](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169804.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014