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 Times (Saturday Review) Best Art Books of 2017Finalist for the 2018 (31st Annual) Translation Prize for Non Fiction, French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2015, chosen by Barry Eichengreen
Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics SocietyFinalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute
One of Bloomberg View’s Great History Books of 2016
Selected for A Financial Times Summer Books selectionOne of Financial Times Best Books in Economics of the Year
A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf
Winner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Winner of the 2018 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society
Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology AssociationWinner of the 2015 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
Winner of the 2015 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Winner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Winner of the 2017 World Sanskrit Award, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Jean Jouzel, one of the two winners of the Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation for 2012