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NU Press AwardsThe following is a selection of the awards that NU Press, its publications, and its authors and translators have recently received:2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award American Academy of Arts and Letters 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award A.E. Stallings Hapax: Poems 2008 Poet's Prize 2008 Poet's Prize A.E. Stallings Hapax: Poems 2008 Pulitzer Prize Tracy Letts for his play Osage published by TCG. Northwestern University Press published Letts's plays Bug and Man from Nebraska 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Meena Alexander Quickly Changing River: Poems Val Vinokur Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas (forthcoming November 2008) Nancy Easternlin After Post-Structuralism: Interdisciplinarity and Literary Theory 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Poetry Adrian C. Louis Logorrhea 2007 Chicago Book Clinic Awards for Design Northwestern University Press was awarded the Crystal Book Award for Excellence for the design of Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire at the 2007 Book and Media Show in Chicago. Receiving honorable mention was Rick Kogan and Chuck Osgood's Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago. 2007 The Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Awarded to the Northwestern University Press in recognition of its contribution to greater Hyde Park's history with the publication of Robert J. Blakely's Earl B. Dickerson, Timuel D. Black, Jr.'s Bridges of Memory, Leon Despres' Challenging the Daley Machine and Truman Gibson, Jr.'s Knocking Down Barriers. 2007 The Robert Chesley Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in Playwriting Eric Bently. The Robert Chesley Foundation was founded 1991 to honor the memory of Robert Chesley, one of the first playwrights to record the effects of AIDS on gay men and women, by recognizing the work of openly gay and lesbian playwrights. Each year the Foundation honors a playwright who has contributed significantly to the growth of gay and lesbian images in theater, is at the start of a promising career, or both. 2007 37th Annual University and College Designers Association Cover Design Award Antonio Fava The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte 2007 Tankard Award Patrick S. Washburn The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom 2006 Lannan Foundation Award - Literary Award Bruce Weigl What Saves Us, Sweet Lorain, After the Others 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics - Thalia Prize Eric Bentley - The Thalia Prize is intended to honour a personality who has made a major contribution to theatre in the world, one such as to change the nature of critics’ thinking about theatre. It is an award for someone who has influenced critics internationally. Eric Bentley's name was chosen after consultation among our several thousand national and individual members in some fifty countries worldwide. 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award Alexander Polikoff Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Certificate of Excellence Truman K. Gibson, Jr. Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Award for Superior Achievement Leon Despres Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award - Honorable Mention Richard Stern Almonds to Zhoof 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards - Lifetime Achievement Award Eric Bentley 2006 Jewish Council on Urban Affairs - Courageous Voices Award Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Certificate of Excellence Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan Lords of the Levee and Big Bill of Chicago 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award Joe Meno Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir 2005 National Medal of Arts Paquito D'Rivera My Sax Life - This medal was presented by President George W. Bush in an Oval Office ceremony on Thursday, November 10, 2005. The President was joined by First Lady Laura Bush, Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts, and Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities. 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition "Merengue" by Paquito D'Rivera, composer (Yo-Yo Ma) Track from: Obrigado Brazil - Live In Concert 2005 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award- Award for Superior Acheivement Richard Christiansen A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago 2005 American Association of Ukrainian Studies Translation Award Yuri Andrukhovych Perverzion (translated by Michael M. Naydan) 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize Péter Esterházy 2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Achievement in the Arts & Letters Timuel D. Black Jr. 2004 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Award for Superior Acheivement Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2004 Jean Block Award Timuel D. Black, Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2004 Jean Block Award Timuel D. Black, Jr.Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2002 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation Finalist Claude Simon The Jardin des Plantes (translated by Jordan Stump) 2002 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize Steven Crowell Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning 2002 PEN Open Book Award Meena Alexander Illiterate Heart 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award Finalist C. Dale Young The Day Underneath the Day 2002 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English Viacheslav Ivanov Selected Essays (translated by Robert Bird, edited by Michael Wachtel) 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature Imre Kertesz Fateless and Kaddish for a Child Not Born 2001 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Claude Simon The Jardin des Plantes (translated by Jordan Stump) 2000 Heldt Translation Prize Marina Tsvetaeva The Ratcatcher (translated by Angela Livingstone) 2000 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize Dan Zahavi Self-Awareness and Alterity 1999 New York Times Book Review of Notable Books Kathleen Hill Still Waters in Niger 1999 Dublin IMPAC Literary Award (short-listed) Herta Muller The Land of Green Plums 1998 Carl Sandburg Award Lala Fishman and Steven Weingartner Lala's Story 1998 Dublin IMPAC Literary Award (short-listed) Kathleen Hill Still Waters in Niger 1998 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist Pamela White Hadas Self Evidence 1998 National Translation Prize Rafael Alberti To Painting (translated by Carolyn Tipton) 1998 PEN Center West Translation Finalist Josef Hirsal A Bohemian Youth (translated by George Hochfield) 1998 PEN Center West Translation Finalist Giampiero Carocci The Officers Camp (translated by Michael Henry Heim) 1997 Carl Sandburg Award Ted Anton Eros,Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu 1997 National Book Award for Poetry William Meredith Effort at Speech 1997 Prix Fanco-European Isaac Levendel Not the Germans Alone 1996 AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award Liza Knapp The Annihilation of Inertia:Dostoevsky and Metaphysics 1995 The New York Times Review Notable Books Peter Esterhazy The Book of Hrabal 1993 The New York Times Review Notable Books Dubravka Ugresic Fording the Stream of Consciousness 1993 AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer's Diary: Volume I (translated by Kenneth Lantz) 1993 PEN Translation Prize Ignacy Krasicki The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (translated by Thomas H. Hoisington) 1992 Fifty Best Books by Publishers Weekly Imre Kertesz Fateless 1992 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Peter Hayes Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World 1991 National Book Award for Poetry Finalist Linda McCarriston Eva-Mary |
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