Awards & Recognition
91桃色 books have won numerous awards, including seven 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, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, 91桃色 books are named among the year鈥�s best reads by publications around the world.
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Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2011Selected for 鈥淭he Best of the Best鈥� Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
One of The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf Best Books of 2013, chosen by Mike Tyson
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismColm T贸ib铆n 鈥� Winner of the 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
Colm T贸ib铆n, Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame 2015
One of The Guardian鈥檚 Best Books of 2015, selected by Blake Morrison
One of The Guardian鈥檚 Best Books of 2015, selected by Nicci Gerrard
One of The Guardian鈥檚 Readers鈥� Books of 2015
One of the Irish Times 2015 Readers鈥� Books of the Year
One of The New Yorker鈥檚 Twelve Books Related to Poems, 2015
A Stevereads Best Reprint Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This YearAn Arts Fuse Recommended Book
NYPL Best Book of the Year
An Independent Best Book to Read This MonthA Guardian Book of the Day
A Conversation Best Book of the Year
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, Folklore Society
Winner of the Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
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
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the YearShortlisted for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies, Mythopoeic Society
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 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Washington Post Best Illustrated Non-Fiction BookShortlisted for the Locus Award in Non-Fiction
Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia Book PrizeHonorable Mention for North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
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鈥檚 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015One of The Independent鈥檚 Best Books of 2014
One of South China Morning Post鈥檚 Best Books of 2014
One of The Globe and Mail 75 Book Ideas for Christmas 2014
Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago
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
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鈥檚 Book AwardOne of Buffalo News鈥� 10 Rare and Wonderful Books for Holiday Giving 2015
Selected for Cosmos Magazine鈥檚 Holiday Science Reading list 2015
One of Denver Life Magazine鈥檚 8 Books for Everyone on Your Holiday List
A NewStatesman Book of the Year for 2015, selected by Leo RobsonOne of Truthdig鈥檚 2015 Books of the Year
One of Truthdig鈥檚 2015 Books of the Year
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 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鈥檚 Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates
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
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books
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
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
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
Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of AmericaRunner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center
Finalist for the 2007 - 20th Translation Prize, French American Foundation & the Florence Gould Foundation
Robert Pinsky, Winner of PEN/Voelcker Career-Achievement Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2007 Richard L. Greaves Award, The International John Bunyan Society
Honorable Mention for the 2003 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
Winner of the 2002 Best Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2000 First Book Prize of the Modern Language 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
Richard Sieburth, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters