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 Award for Excellence in Biology & Life Sciences, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
Martha C. Nussbaum, Recipient of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
One of The Economist's Best Business and Economics Books of 2018E. Glen Weyl & Eric Posner: One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Bloomberg 50” Icons of 2018
World's 2018 Books of the Year
Winner of the Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association
Winner of the Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize in Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Winner of the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Alison Light
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Flavorwire’s 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
One of Forbes.com’s 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016
Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Award, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association2017 Regional Finalist in Science, ForeWord Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards