The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday. You can view the full list of this year’s winners and finalists in poetry, literature, and various categories of news reporting here.

No University of Nebraska Press titles won Pulitzers this year, but today does bring news from our Nobel Prize-winning author, J. M. G. Le Clezio. The University of Nebraska Press has obtained rights to publish an English translation of Le Clezio’s short story collection Mondo and Other Stories. The collection is slated for publication in spring 2011. Even Publishers Weekly took notice.

In other award news, The Great Plains during World War II, by Douglas Hurt, has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008, and Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West, by Daryl Farmer, and Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West, by Annette Stotto, have been selected as a Finalist for the 2009 Colorado Book Award. Fantastic news for three fantastic books!