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.
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A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2024An Independent Best Book to Read This Month
A Guardian Book of the Day
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year
A Washington Post Most Anticipated ReleaseA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, Folklore Society
Finalist for the 1993 Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society for Theatre Research
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category
Winner of the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize, Calandra Italian American Institute
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year
A Financial Times Best Summer BookA New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year
Shortlisted for the History Book of the Year Prize, History Reclaimed
Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year Prize
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationWinner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Washington Post Best Poetry Collection of the YearA New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize, Arrowsmith Press
Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Arts of the Present
A Washington Post Best Illustrated Non-Fiction BookShortlisted for the Locus Award in Non-Fiction
An A Kennedy Smith Book of the Year
Co-Winner of the Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British StudiesHonorable Mention for the Ecocriticism Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Co-Winner of the Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Winner of the 2000 Patrick F. Quinn Award of the Poe Studies Association, Modern Language Association
Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book PrizeHonorable Mention for North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book Award
Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Honorable Mention for the Book of the Year Award, African Literature Association
An Untapped Cities Best Book of All Time
Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English
Finalist for the Religion and the Arts Book Award, American Academy of Religion
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Critics' Picks
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021
Shortlisted for the Tolkien Society Best Book Award
Selected as One of the Top 10 Poetry Books of Spring 2020 by Publisher's Weekly
Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationWinner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association
Honorable Mention for the 2018 NAVSA Book Prize, North American Victorian Studies Association
Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors
Winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, University of North Texas
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasHonorable Mention for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America
Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association
One of FiveBooks' Best Philosophy Books of 2019
Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN AmericaOttilie Mulzet, Winner of the Tibor Déry Prize, Tibor Déry Foundation
Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Arts of the Present
Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Michael Dirda's Best Books of 2018
Winner of the 2008 Texas Institute of Letters' Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2012 BAAS Book Prize, British Association of American StudiesShortlisted for the 2012 American Studies Network Prize
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998
Co-Winner of the 1999 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, Modern Language Association
Winner of the 2002 Best Book Award
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001
Winner of the 2007 Richard L. Greaves Award, The International John Bunyan Society
Winner of the 2005-06 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
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
Winner of the 2017 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
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 a 2016 American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2015
Shortlisted for the 2016 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Winner of the 18th Annual (2016) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M UniversityWinner of the 2015 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Adam Thirlwell)
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2015 (selected by Robert Macfarlane)
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015
One of the Slate Book Review's Overlooked Books of 2015
One of The Paris Review’s Staff Picks for 2015 (selected by Lorin Stein)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015One of The Independent’s Best Books of 2014
One of South China Morning Post’s Best Books of 2014
One of The Globe and Mail 75 Book Ideas for Christmas 2014
Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Pen American CenterOne of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Jane Shaw
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2016, chosen by Andrew Motion
Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago
Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award
Winner of the 2006 Best Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Honorable Mention for the 2013 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of NarrativeHonorable Mention for the 2011 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
Winner of the 2005 National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association
Winner of the 1998 Poetry in Translation Award, PEN American Center
Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book CouncilPeter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
Richard Sieburth, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Named a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014
Winner of the 1997 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for the Translation of Modern Italian Poetry
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
Winner of the 1992 Hiromi Arisawa Award, Association of American University Presses
Winner of the 1993 Book of the Year, Conference on Christianity and Literature
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
Finalist for the 1994 Koizumi Yakurro Prize
Winner of the 1996 Literary Scholarship Award, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
Honorable Mention for the 1999 Barbara Perkins and Geroge Perkins Award of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature and Language, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
Jane O. Newman, Co-Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association
Co-Winner of the 2016 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2017 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Tash Aw
Winner of a 2015 Gelett Burgess Children’s Book AwardOne of Buffalo News’ 10 Rare and Wonderful Books for Holiday Giving 2015
Selected for Cosmos Magazine’s Holiday Science Reading list 2015
One of Denver Life Magazine’s 8 Books for Everyone on Your Holiday List
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryOne of Library Journal’s Best Books 2015: Poetry
One of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2015 (selected by David Orr)
Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of NarrativeWinner of the 2013 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
A NewStatesman Book of the Year for 2015, selected by Leo RobsonOne of Truthdig’s 2015 Books of the Year
One of Truthdig’s 2015 Books of the Year
Colm Tóibín – Winner of the 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize FoundationColm Tóibín, Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame 2015
Nominee for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Blake Morrison
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Nicci Gerrard
One of The Guardian’s Readers’ Books of 2015
One of the Irish Times 2015 Readers’ Books of the Year
One of The New Yorker’s Twelve Books Related to Poems, 2015
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Winner of the 2013 NAVSA Best Book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category, Mystery Writers of AmericaFinalist for the 2012 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates
One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Pankaj MishraSelected for the SFG Gift Guide 2013
Winner of the 14th Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M UniversityCo-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Co-Winner of the 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
Winner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library AssociationOne of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Hari Kunzru
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by David Wootton
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Robert S. C. Gordon
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Mike Tyson
Winner of the 2014 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900Honorable Mention for the 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Co-Winner of the 2012 Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore SocietyOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
Winner of the 2015 R. Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
Winner of the 2012 Book Award, College Language AssociationWinner of the 2012 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc.
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis
Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books
Winner of the 2012 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, The International Society for the Study of NarrativeWinner of the 2010-2011 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Second Runner-Up for the 2011 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Runner-Up for the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
One of Library Journal's Best Books in Poetry for 2012
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Winner of a 2013 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction, Lannan Foundation
Winner of the 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky UniversityCo-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationShortlisted for the 2013 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Winner of the 1961 George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism
Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2011Selected for “The Best of the Best” Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002
Winner of a 2015 Whiting Award, Whiting FoundationFinalist for the 2012 Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University
Winner of the 2012 SAMLA Studies Award, South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
Runner-Up for the 2009 Atlantic's Best Book of the YearOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of AmericaRunner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion
Winner of the 2012 Book Merit Award in the General Trade, Poetry Series, New York Book ShowFinalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry
Kathleen Graber, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Winner of the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry, Library of Virginia
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
Finalist for the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America
Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and LettersRunner-Up for the The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors
Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
Winner of the 2009 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
Honorable Mention for the 2010 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Winner of the 2008 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins PrizeWinner of the 2008 Alan Bray Memorial Award
Winner of the 2008 Albion Book Prize
Winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in LGBT Studies
Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle
Winner of the 2005 Cultural Studies Award, The Association for Asian American StudiesHonorable Mention for the 2006 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
Robert Pinsky, Winner of PEN/Voelcker Career-Achievement Award for Poetry
A ReadySteadyBooks.com Book of the Week
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2004 Sonya Rudikoff Book Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Winner of the 2004 Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
Honorable Mention for the 2003 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Winner of the 2010 TLS Risa Domb/Porjes Translation Prize, Jewish Book CouncilWinner of the 2007 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture
Peter Cole, Recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Winner of the 2007 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies
Honorable Mention for the 2007 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHonorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize
Shortlisted for the 2007 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Finalist for the 2007 - 20th Translation Prize, French American Foundation & the Florence Gould Foundation
Honorable Mention for the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multi Volume Reference Works/Humanities & Social Sciences, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007
Honorable Mention for the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award, American Culture AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007
Winner of the 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize
J.M. Coetzee, Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
Winner of the 2001 Sonya Rudikoff First Book Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2000 First Book Prize of the Modern Language Association
Honorable Mention for the 2000 First Book Prize of the Modern Language Association
Winner of the 1998 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, British AcademyWinner of the 1998 First Book Prize, Modern Language Association
Winner of the 1995 Beatrice White Award, English Association
Winner of the 1995 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa
Winner of the 1997 Best Scholarly Book Award, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Winner of the 1992 Book Prize in Literature, German Studies Association
Winner of the 1993 Translation Prize, American-Scandinavian Foundation
Winner of the 1993 Book Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Edmund Keeley, Winner of the 2000 Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, PEN American Center
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers