Last Friday, Oct.8, the Nebraska Book Awards were announced and UNP came away with two awards.   Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite’s  African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology won for the anthology category. This book, the first of its kind, supplies the critical missing chapter in American history of African Americans in the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted until recently.    For the nonfiction honor, Robert Cochran’s Louise Pound:  … Continue reading Two more awards for UNP

What’s that cliché saying again… When it rains, it pours? Because that is exactly what is happening right now with UNP awards. David L. Preston has been selected to receive the 2010 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research for his book, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783. The award is given by the New York State Archives for extensive research using the records at the Archives as a Hackman Resident in 1999 and the publication of the book this year.The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and … Continue reading UNP author wins research award

Good things come in threes, right? UNP is proud to share that Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa is the third consecutive Nobel Prize in Literature winner to publish with our press. He was a contributor to The Global Game: Writers on Soccer published in 2008. The Global Game is a collection of writings that reflect the universal and infinitely varied ways in which soccer connects with human experience.  UNP is also the publisher of Nadirs (Nebraska, 1999) by 2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Mueller, as well as Onitsha (Nebraska, 1997) and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (Nebraska, 2002) by … Continue reading UNP contributor wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Coastal Encounters is a collection of research about the transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century. It reveals the history of the coast’s collision of European, African and Native peoples with different perspectives about the changes that occurred. One of the contributors is Shannon Lee Dawdy, who is one of the nation’s leading researchers on topics related to New Orleans and the Caribbean. She has also just been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. Dawdy received the award  — also known as a "genius grant" — from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which includes a $500,000 … Continue reading UNP contributor wins the genius grant

Two UNP authors — Jay Gallentine and Margaret D. Jacobs — recently won three prestigious national awards, and we couldn’t be more proud.   Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft, by Jay Gallentine, won the annual Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, which is sponsored by the American Astonautical Society. Ambassadors from Earth tell the story behind the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers. It includes everything from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites in the 1950s to the Voyager Missions of the 1970s. Gallentine uses original interviews with keyplayers, never-before-seen photos and journal excerpts to illustrate the … Continue reading UNP authors win three national awards

Like much of the writing world, the University of Nebraska Press is still processing all of the people, panels, parties, signings, conversations, and (naturally), the books of this year’s AWP conference. A great time was had by authors and publishers alike, but that is not the purpose of this post. No, the purpose of this post is to congratulate Jonis Agee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln creative writing professor, Bison Books author (Sweet Eyes, 2003), and winner of this year’s  George Garrett Award for Community Service, given each year by AWP. The award was given in recognition of Jonis’ teaching and mentoring … Continue reading Congratulations Jonis Agee, winner of the 2010 AWP George Garrett Award!