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 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America
Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
Winner of the 2012 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association
Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
One of Financial Times (FT.com)'s Books of the Year in Nonfiction Round-Up in the Science & Environment list for 2010
Edwidge Danticat, Honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
Winner of the 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature
Winner of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2010 Book of the Year Award in Biography and Autobiography, ForeWord Reviews
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for 2010
One of Mosaic Magazine's Best Books for 2010
One of The Miami Herald, Between the Covers blog's Best Books for 2010
Winner of the 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature
Winner of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2010 Book of the Year Award in Biography and Autobiography, ForeWord Reviews
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for 2010
One of Mosaic Magazine's Best Books for 2010
One of The Miami Herald, Between the Covers blog's Best Books for 2010