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33 Articles Tagged Award Winners

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 13 2020

Martin Hägglund’s This Life has won the René Wellek Prize

Martin Hägglund’s book This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom has won the René Wellek Prize for the best book in the field by the American Comparative Literature Association. Winners of this award include Umberto Eco and Edward Said.   The awards committee in their citation offered high praise for This Life: “Martin Hägglund’s This

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Martin Hägglund’s This Life has won the René Wellek Prize

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 13 2020
THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

We celebrate THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez, published by Riverhead, chosen by the panel of five judges from 368 submissions, as the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, announced Wednesday evening, November 14, at the annual National Book Foundation dinner in downtown Manhattan. Sigrid Nunez’s previous literary honors include a Whiting Writer’s Award, and

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THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
July 9 2018

The English Patient Wins Best of Man Booker Prize

The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. “The English Patient

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The English Patient Wins Best of Man Booker Prize

Humanities & Social Sciences
July 9 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
May 31 2018

Olga Tokarczuk Wins 2018 Man Booker International Prize for FLIGHTS

Flights, a “non-traditional” narrative by acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, awarded annually to a fiction work judged to be the year’s outstanding work of translated fiction. Translator Jennifer Croft will share the 50,000 pound prize with Tokarczuk.

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Olga Tokarczuk Wins 2018 Man Booker International Prize for FLIGHTS

Humanities & Social Sciences
May 31 2018
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Humanities & Social Sciences
April 24 2018

Penguin Press Author Stephen Kotkin Wins the Mark Lynton History Prize for STALIN

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the winners of the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, including the Mark Lynton History Prize for Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, published by Penguin Press.

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Penguin Press Author Stephen Kotkin Wins the Mark Lynton History Prize for STALIN

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 24 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
February 27 2018

David Grossman has been awarded the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature

Israel’s Education Ministry announced that celebrated author, David Grossman, has been awarded the Israel Prize—the country’s highest literary accolade—for this year.   The prize committee, led by Prof. Avner Holtzman, noted that “since the early ’80s, Grossman has taken center stage in the Israeli culture scene. He is one of the most profound, moving and influential

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David Grossman has been awarded the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature

Humanities & Social Sciences
February 27 2018
Evicted
Humanities & Social Sciences
February 21 2018

Letter From The Author: Matthew Desmond on Researching and Writing EVICTED

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City I began this project because I wanted to write a different kind of book about poverty in America. Instead of focusing exclusively on poor people or poor places, I began searching for a process that involved poor and well-off people alike. Eviction—the forced removal of families from

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Letter From The Author: Matthew Desmond on Researching and Writing EVICTED

Humanities & Social Sciences
February 21 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

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Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2017

Jhumpa Lahiri is 2017 PEN/Malamud Award Winner

Jhumpa Lahiri has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She will receive the $5,000 award and give a reading December 8 at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Jhumpa Lahiri is 2017 PEN/Malamud Award Winner

Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2017

2017 Pulitzer Prizes to Penguin Random House titles

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday and four Penguin Random House titles received the distinguished medal honoring excellence in Arts and Letters.

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2017 Pulitzer Prizes to Penguin Random House titles

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 6 2017

Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

Imbolo Mbue has been awarded the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers.

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Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 6 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
March 15 2017

Blood in the Water wins 2017 Bancroft Prize

Heather Ann Thompson, an historian at the University of Michigan has won the 2017 Bancroft Prize in History for Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

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Blood in the Water wins 2017 Bancroft Prize

Humanities & Social Sciences
March 15 2017
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