Pot Farm named grand prize winner
Matthew Gavin Frank's Pot Farm is the grand prize winner of the 2012 New York Book Festival. Click here for the full list of winners. Congratulations to Matthew! Continue reading Pot Farm named grand prize winner
Category: Awards
First place award winner
Author Wendy Call won the first place prize for Best History/Political Book in English in the International Latino Book Awards for her book, No Word for Welcome. The International Latino Book Award is the largest and most important Latino book awards in the USA. This year, the awards were sponsored by Libros Publishing, Scholastic, and Atria Books. No Word for Welcome follows the story of a large-scale development effort in central Mexico and the grassroots efforts to stop it. Congrats Wendy! Continue reading First place award winner
High Plains Awards winner
Honyocker Dreams by David Mogen was listed as a 2012 High Plains Book Award Finalist in the nonficiton category. You can still the full list of winners here. Congrats David! Continue reading High Plains Awards winner
IPPY winner
The 2012 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) results are in! Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan by Robert K. Fitts won the silver medal in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation category. See the complete list of winners here. Congrats Rob! Continue reading IPPY winner
Hyde becomes Pulitzer finalist
Congratulations to Anne F. Hyde for becoming a Pulitzer finalist! Her book, Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, was named a finalist in the History category. Earlier this year, she was awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted awards in the field of history. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Congrats again, Anne! Continue reading Hyde becomes Pulitzer finalist
Armstrong wins Pulitzer
Congratulations to Ken Armstrong for winning a Pulitzer in investigative reporting! Armstrong and Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times won for their coverage of how a little known governmental body in Washington moved patients from safer pain-killers to a cheaper but more dangerous drug. Armstrong is one of the authors of Scoreboard, Baby, where he goes behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale. Libby Sander of the Chronicle of Higher Education called Scoreboard, Baby a tale that "should be required reading for anyone linked to university life." Continue reading Armstrong wins Pulitzer
Hyde wins Bancroft Prize
Congratulations to UNP author Anne F. Hyde for being awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize! Hyde won the award for her book Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860. The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University to three books published on the subjects of American history and diplomacy. It is among the most prestigious prizes in the field. Empires, Nations, and Families is an exploration of the American West just after the Louisiana Purchase, tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific … Continue reading Hyde wins Bancroft Prize
Friday round up
This Sunday at the 84th Academy Awards, Omaha’s very own Alexander Payne is nominated for Best Picture, Directing and Writing (adapted screenplay) for his movie, The Descendents. On a local level, Payne is the narrator of a video about the new book Drawn to Fashion by Mary Mitchell. The video is showing at the Durham Museum in Omaha in conjunction with an exhibit of Mitchell's fashion illustrations. And earlier this week, UNP author Matthew Gavin Frank was interviewed via email by John Warner from Inside Higher Ed about his new book Pot Farm. Warner called Pot Farm a ”…simultaneously beautiful, … Continue reading Friday round up
Discover great new writers
Each year, the Discover Great New Writers Program from Barnes and Noble has introduced readers to up-and-coming new authors, many of whom have been from UNP. Past UNP winners include Ted Kooser (Local Wonders), Brandon Schrand (The Enders Hotel), Daryl Farmer (Bicycling Beyond the Divide) and most recently, Jon Pineda (Sleep in Me). Do you know an author (UNP or otherwise!) who you think should be considered for this honor? If so, enter their works in the Facebook Sweepstakes here. You’ll be automatically in the drawing for a new NOOK Tablet. Check out Barnes and Noble’s website or stop by … Continue reading Discover great new writers
Ruth wins National Jewish Book Award
Last week, Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and the late Tivka Frymer-Kensky were awarded the National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies for The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth, published by The Jewish Publication Society. The award will be presented during a ceremony in New York this coming March. The National Jewuish Book Award is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature. Ruth is the latest in the JPS Bible Commentary series. The authors provide a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the … Continue reading Ruth wins National Jewish Book Award
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