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RECENT AWARD WINNERS

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; and two-time National Book Award winner Wright Morris. Discover our most recent award winners below, and visit our Past Awards page for additional award-winning books.

 Empires, Nations, and Families    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

 Banzai Babe Ruth    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

 Private Property    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

 Useful Fictions    Useful Fictions
Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
Michael Austin

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution    Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution
Jonathan R. Dull

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Quotology    Quotology
Willis Goth Regier

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Atlas of the Great Plains    Atlas of the Great Plains
Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer
Foreword by David J. Wishart
Introduction by John C. Hudson

2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference category

 Inventing the Jew    Inventing the Jew
Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures
Andrei Oisteanu
Foreword by Moshe Idel
Translated by Mirela Adascalitei

Winner of the 2011 Alexandru D. Xenopol prize awarded by the Romanian Academy

 What They Saved    What They Saved
Pieces of a Jewish Past
Nancy K. Miller

Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize

 The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth    The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth
Tikva Frymer-Kensky and Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women’s Studies

 A Double Life    A Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
Lisa Catherine Harper

2011 National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight

 Paralyses    Paralyses
Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity
John Culbert

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, sponsored by the Modern Languages Association

 A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)    A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
Jack B. Martin
With the assistance of Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt

Winner of the 2011 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America