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 Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, Association for Asian StudiesWinner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2017 British Psychological Society Book Awards, Best Academic MonographWinner of the 2017 British Psychological Society Book Awards, Best Academic Monograph
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist
Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017
Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017
Winner of the FPA Distinguished Scholar Award, Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies AssociationWinner of the Best Book Award, Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyFinalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Award, PEN American Center
One of EcoLit Books' Best Environmental Books of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Michael Dirda's Best Books of 2018
One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2018 (Cass Sunstein)One of Barron's Book Picks from Industry Leaders in 2018 (Robert Shiller)
One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Economic, Social, and Environment / Finance
Winner of the BAJS Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies
One of Mosaic's Best Books of 2018 (Moshe Koppel)
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson