Several titles from the UC Press food and wine list were honored by the 2009 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. South-West France: The Wines and Winemakers by Paul Strang was named Best Wine …
Read More >Poet Sarah Gridley has been selected as a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellow in Literature by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio. The $20,000 fellowships are awarded to local …
Read More >The National Academy of Sciences has awarded its prestigious Public Welfare Medal to Eugenie Scott, author of Evolution vs. Creationism, in recognition of her work as executive director of the National Center …
Read 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 …
Read More >Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church has been awarded the 2009 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society of Humanistic Anthropology (SHA). A Problem …
Read More >UPDATE: Transcendental Studies is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. Transcendental Studies is a 2009 National Book Award finalist in poetry. This compelling selection of recent work by …
Read More >The forthcoming UC Press poetry volume Forest of Eyes, a selection of poems by one of Japan’s most important modern poets, Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles, was recently awarded the 2009 …
Read More >As announced last week, University of California Press author Harryette Mullen received the 2009 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, one of the most distinguished awards in poetry in the …
Read More >UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski has devoted his career to studying the very thing he once tried to escape—poverty. Born to indigenous and mestizo migrant laborers in Sonoro, Mexico, Sánchez-Jankowski moved …
Read More >Last week Bill Ivey won the prestigious NAMM “Music for Life” award, the association’s highest honor. Ivey, part of the Obama/Biden transition team, former head of the NEA, of Vanderbilt University’s Curb …
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