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

2026 International Book Awards

Hostage (Potomac Books, 2026) by Mimi Nichter is a finalist in two categories in two categories, Autobiography/Memoir and Nonfiction: Creative.

Big Sky Award

Be a Man (Bison Books, 2026) by Russell Rowland is a finalist for the Big Sky Award.

2025 International Latino Book Award

Fugitive Son (Potomac Books, 2024) by Aramís Calderón received an honorable mention in Best Autobiography-English.

2024 National Association of Social Sciences of Brazil Scientific Works Prize

 2024 Jabuti Academic Prize

2024 Brazilian Association of University Publishers Award

The Brazilian edition of Art Effects (Nebraska, 2020), Ardis da Arte, by Carlos Fausto is the winner of the 2024 National Association of Social Sciences of Brazil Scientific Works Prize, finalist for the 2024 Jabuti Academic Prize, and received third place for 2024 Brazilian Association of University Publishers Award.

2026 Book of Merit Award

Ojibwe Ethnogenesis (Nebraska, 2025) by Theresa Schenck is the winner of the 2026 Wisconsin Historical Society Book of Merit Award.

2026 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award

Eckie by Chris Serb (Nebraska, 2025) was shortlisted for the 2026 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award.

 2026 Virginia Literary Award

Death Does Not End at the Sea by Gbenga Adesina (Nebraska, 2025) is a finalist for the 2026 Virginia Literary Award in Poetry.

 2026 Lewis Galantière Award

When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman Waberi and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Nebraska, 2025) was shortlisted for the 2026 Lewis Galantière Award.

 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature 

Bakandamiya by Saddiq Dzukogi (Nebraska, 2025) has been longlisted for the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature.

2025 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award

Waging War for Freedom (Potomac Books, 2025) edited by James Robbin Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle is the winner of the 2025 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award in Journals, Memoirs, and Letters category.

2026 Indiana Authors Award

The Perils of Girlhood (Nebraska, 2025) by Melissa Fraterrigo has been shortlisted for the 2026 Indiana Authors Award in Nonfiction.