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As the year comes to a close, allow us to brag a little bit on behalf of our authors, who absolutely knocked it out of the park this year when it came to awards. These 65 brilliant works won or were finalists for some 2012′s most prestigious prizes in publishing and academia. Congratulations to all, [more...]  Congratulations are certainly in order for our Journals Division as they celebrate having Boom: A Journal of California named one of the Best Magazines of 2011 by none other than Library Journal. To quote directly from the article announcing the win: “One in eight Americans lives in California, a state with an economy larger than Canada’s. [more...] Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office Congratulations to Jonathan Losos, the author of Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles, for being awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. Here’s the copy from the NAS announcement: Far be it for me to seem like I’m bragging, so here’s our history editor, Niels Hooper, with the good news: Dear all, UC Press has won 4 of the major prizes at the largest and most prestigious annual history conference, the American Historical Association. This is a remarkable success for any press. History is a massive [more...] This is best left in the words of Scott Norton, our Director of Editing, Design and Production: Folks: I’m proud to announce that four of our books have recently won two prestigious design awards. Infinite City, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Culinary Ephemera, and The Exultant Ark have all received awards at the 37th Bookbuilders West Book Show. Infinite [more...] Over the past month, UC Press authors and publications have been honored with a series of outstanding awards and nominations. Read more about the honors they’ve received: Daniel Callahan, Matteo Ricci, S.J. Award Two UC Press books are winners at the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards, which honor the best of everything in food and wine. Encyclopedia of Pasta, by Oretta Zanini de Vita and translated by Maureen Fant, won in the Reference and Scholarship category, and Randall Grahm’s Been Doon So Long won [more...] Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. “I think that one should take it as one direction that poetry can go, there are not only five books that were selected here, but a dozen others that are very good. I would hope that the existence of [more...] |
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