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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Winner of the 2012 Book of the Year Award, American National Section of L'Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (AIDP)
Selected for the Washington Post's "Best of 2012: 50 notable works of nonfiction"
Selected for the Washington Post's "Best of 2012: 50 notable works of nonfiction"
William Bialek, Winner of the 2013 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
One of Huffington Post's Best Art Books for 2012, List of the 50 Greatest Creative Publications
One of Big Think's Best Art Books of 2012
One of The Village Voice's Favorite Books for 2012
One of Big Think's Best Art Books of 2012
One of The Village Voice's Favorite Books for 2012
One of Library Journal's Best Reference of Law & Politics for 2012
Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013
Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013
Winner of the 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award, Saltire Society
One of The New Yorker's "Reviewer's Favorites" of 2011
Shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award in Nonfiction
One of The New Yorker's "Reviewer's Favorites" of 2011
Shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award in Nonfiction