Congratulations to all 2014 Nebraska Book Award winners! UNP is proud to have four titles honored in this year’s competition. Fiction Honor Haven’s Wake By Ladette Randolph When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of an eastern Nebraskan family, the … Continue reading Nebraska Book Award Winners
French novelist Patrick Modiano is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, adding to the University of Nebraska Press backlist of Nobel Prize winners. Modiano is the author of Out of the Dark, which was translated by University of … Continue reading UNP backlist shines with Third Nobel Prize winner in Literature
Nebraska Book Award winner: Nonfiction (Autobiography) Called to Justice: The Life of a Federal Trial Judge By Warren K. Urbom Foreword by William Jay Riley Read an excerpt “In describing the extraordinary professional challenges and life-altering personal tragedies he has … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Called to Justice
Nebraska Book Award winner: Nonfiction (Autobiography) Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television By Ron Hull Read an excerpt “Possessing a remarkable memory, and with attention to detail, Hull takes us on an intimate pilgrimage. . . . Ron’s … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Backstage
Nebraska Book Award winner: Youth Nonfiction Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days By Nancy Plain “Nancy Plain’s Light on the Prairie . . . places Butcher’s work in its historical and sociological context, and provides a … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Light on the Prairie
Nebraska Book Award winner: Nonfiction (History) Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867 By James E. Potter “A masterful narrative of wartime passions, played out on the battlefields, in the newspapers, and in the territorial … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Standing Firmly by the Flag
Nebraska Book Award winner: Anthology Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on on Loren Eiseley Edited by Tom Lynch and Susan Naramore Maher “Artifacts and Illuminations, the first comprehensive collection of new critical essays about Loren Eiseley’s work, will transform Eiseley … Continue reading Spotlight on our 2013 Nebraska Book Award winners: Artifacts and Illuminations
2012 was a great year and we are proud of all of our authors and their accomplishments. See our previous award winners below:
The History of the Holocaust in Romania
By Jean Ancel
The National Jewish Book Award
Writing Based on Archival Material category
No Word for Welcome
Banzai Babe Ruth
Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
By Robert K. Fitts
IPPY Awards
Silver Medal in the sports/fitness/recreation category
The History of the Holocaust in Romania by Jean Ancel published by UNP and Yad Vashem won the Writing Based on Archival Material category of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. The History of the Holocaust in Romania is a comprehensive analysis of the Holocaust in Romania during World War II. Jean Ancel (1940–2008) was a Romanian-born Israeli independent historian and a research associate of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research. To see the full press release, check out the Jewish Book Council. Congrats to all the winners and finalists! Continue reading 2012 National Jewish Book Award announcement
In case you missed it yesterday, Epistolophilia by Julija Šukys is on the longlist for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. You can see the announcement here. The shortlist for the prize will be announced Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Congrats again, Julija! Continue reading Longlist for the Charles Taylor Prize announced
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