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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One of the Best Jewish Books of 2018 (Howard Freedman, Jewish News of Northern California)
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Celebrate 350
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Européen, Esprit d’Europe
Winner of the 2017 Award for Excellence in Religion Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeFinalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
The Spectator's Books of the Year
Honorable Mention for the 2015 National Outdoor Book Awards, Nature and the Environment, NOBA Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the 2018 Judaica Reference and Bibliography Award, Association of Jewish LibrariesWinner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, Nahum Sarna Memorial Award
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Lars Peter Hansen, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in EconomicsThomas J. Sargent, Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
Winner of the 2018 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, National Academy of Sciences
Winner of the 2015 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association