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
Browse Awards2015
One of The New York Times' Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the HeartWinner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American PublishersWinner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, The Hellenic Centre
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
Winner of the Best Book Award, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association
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
Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020
Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award
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 StudiesShortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsHonorable Mention for the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020One of The Sunday Times' Best Art Books of 2020
Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers