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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Michael Cook, Winner of the 2014 Holberg Prize
2015 Bronze Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category
Winner of a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Winner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism, Association of American PublishersOne of the Evening Standard Best Art Books of 2017 (chosen by David Ekserdijian)
Winner of the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ FederationOne of The Australian’s Books of the Year 2015 (selected by Aminatta Forna)
Longlisted for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Arabic Culture in Other Languages
Winner of the 1997 Book of the Year, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 18th Annual (2016) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M UniversityWinner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Adam Thirlwell)
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Robert Macfarlane)
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015
One of the Slate Book Review's Overlooked Books of 2015
One of The Paris Review’s Staff Picks for 2015 (selected by Lorin Stein)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015