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The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of many award-winning authors, including Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser; Nobel Prize in Literature winners J. M. G. Le Clézio, Herta Müller, and Mario Vargas Llosa; Bancroft Prize Winners Margaret D. Jacobs and Anne F. Hyde; and two-time National Book Award winner Wright Morris.
Discover our most recent award winners:
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Eyes Right
Confessions from a Woman Marine
Tracy Crow
Bronze winner in the General Non Fiction category of the 2012 Florida Book Awards
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We Are Here
Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
Ellen Cassedy
2012 ForeWord's Book of the Year finalist in History
Grub Street Prize
Prakhin International Literary Foundation Award
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Hoosh
Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine Jason C. Anthony
2012 Special Commendation André Simon Food and Drink Book Award
2012 ForeWord's Book of the Year finalist in Travel Essays
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Light on the Prairie
Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days
Nancy Plain
2013 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction
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Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done
A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War
Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader
With a foreword by Edward M. Coffman
2013 Distinguished Book Award for Reference from the Society for Military History
2011 winner of the AHF Distinguished Writing Awards, Reference category
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The History of the Holocaust in Romania
Jean Ancel
Translated by Yaffah Murciano
Edited by Leon Volovici
With the assistance of Miriam Caloianu
Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the Writing Based on Archival Material category
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Almost Somewhere
Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
Suzanne Roberts
Winner of the Literature Category of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Awards
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Connie Mack
The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
Norman L. Macht
2012 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year finalist
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central
High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
Steve Marantz
With a foreword by Susie Buffett
2011 ForeWord's Book of the Year Gold Winner in Sports/Adult Nonfiction
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Bohemian Girl
Terese Svoboda
2011 ForeWord Book of the Year finalist in Historical Adult Fiction
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The Book of What Stays
James Crews
2011 ForeWord Book of the Year honorable mention in Adult Nonfiction Poetry
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In Trace of TR
A Montana Hunter's Journey
Dan Aadland
1st place in the Book/E-book category for Excellence in Craft Contest (Outdoor Writers of America)
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Pot Farm
Matthew Gavin Frank
Grand prize winner of the 2012 New York Book Festival
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Honyocker Dreams
Montana Memories
David Mogen
2012 High Plains Book Award Finalist in the nonficiton category
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Empires, Nations, and Families
A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Anne F. Hyde
Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize
2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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Banzai Babe Ruth
Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
Robert K. Fitts
Winner of Silver Medal at 2012 IPPY Awards in the sports/fitness/recreation category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards
2012 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year finalist
2013 Seymour Medal
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Private Property
Paule Constant
Translated by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn
Introduction by Claudine Fisher
Named to the fiction longlist in the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards sponsored by Three Percent
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