A warm round of applause for our award-winning authors! Congratulations! Author Award Whiting Award: 2016 Winner in Poetry Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair “She renders the geography of Jamaica as something that takes over her body, and yet concludes with the … Continue reading New Award Winners
UNP would like to congratulate all of the 2015 Nebraska Book Award winners! These awards honor authors and publishers of books with a Nebraska connection published in 2014. Featured winning authors will read from their work and sign copies of their … Continue reading 2015 Nebraska Book Award Winners
Nebraska Native’s Vietnam memoir chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska Nebraskans have new required reading material. The 2015 One Book One Nebraska selection is Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting (University of Nebraska … Continue reading 2015 One Book One Nebraska
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
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