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 a 2013 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Winner of the 2009 Best Book Award in Political Sociology, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Section on Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association
One of SkyNews Best Astronomy Books of the Year 2013, chosen by SkyNews editor, Terence Dickinson
Winner of the 2016 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American HistoriansNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Kip S. Thorne, Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019
One of the The New York Times Best Art Books of 2017, chosen by Holland CotterHonorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2018 Scottish Research Book of the Year, Saltire SocietyReceived the Judges’ Commendation for the 2018 SHARP DeLong Book History Book Prize, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association
Steven S. Gubser, Winner of the 2017 Simons Investigator Award in Physics, Simons FoundationFrans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2016
Winner of the 2017 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University