Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work!

National Book Awards

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation honoring the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Death Does Not End at the Sea (Nebraska, 2025) by Gbenga Adesina has been Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.

Midwest Book Awards

The Midwest Book Awards honor and celebrate voices and literature in the Midwest.

Dodge County, Incorporated (Bison Books, 2024) by Sonja Trom Eayrs is the Social Science/Political Science/Culture Nonfiction Winner.

High Plains International Book Award

High Plains International Book Awards, established in 2007, celebrates literary works which examine and reflect life in the High Plains region.

The Boy Who Promised Me Horses (Bison Book, 2024) by David Joseph Charpentier is a Finalist in the First Book Category.

Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World (Bison Books, 2024) by Sally Thompson is the Winner of the Big Sky Award.

Georgia Author of the Year

Inside the Mirror (Nebraska, 2024) by Parul Kapur is the Winner of the First Novel category.

“Kapur draws characters so vividly that I felt what they felt, saw what they saw, struggled and triumphed with them. The joy and hope and heartbreak and deeply felt desires of the sisters remains with me, and will for a long time.”

—Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Judge

SABR Awards

Mike Donlin (Nebraska, 2024) by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz is the Winner of the 2025 Larry Ritter Award.

Lambda Literary Awards

The Lambda Literary Awards were created in 1989 to garner national visibility for LGBTQ books, which had established a foothold through a nascent network of lesbian and gay publishers and bookstores.

The Spring before Obergefell (Nebraska, 2024) by Ben Grossberg is a Finalist in the Gay Romance category.

Wyoming Historical Society

The Wyoming Historical Society seeks to encourage and recognize efforts to preserve Wyoming history within literature.

Buffalo Bill and the Mormons (Bison Books, 2024) by Brent M. Rogers won the 2025 Publication Award for Best Biography.

National Federation Press of Women Awards

Chasing Cynthiana (Potomac Books, 2024) by Lynn Hamilton placed first in the Nonfiction Book for Adult Readers category.

2025 ASEEES Prizes

To recognize outstanding scholarship and contribution to the field, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) annually awards several prizes and awards.

Between the Wires (Nebraska, 2024) by Waitman Wade Beorn is the Winner of the Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies.