The following is a selection of the awards that Northwestern University Press, its  publications, and its authors and translators have received:  Tracy Letts, Bug and Man from Nebraska 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the play August: Osage County (Published by TCG)   Martin Duberman, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein 2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Original hardcover published by Knopf in April, 2007)   A.E. Stallings, Hapax 2008 Poet’s Prize The Poets Prize is awarded annually for the best book of poetry published by an American.   A.E. Stallings, Hapax 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award. This award is given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.   Meena Alexander, Quickly Changing River, Raw Silk, and Illiterate Heart 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship   Val Vinokur, Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship   Northwestern University Press Chicago Lives Series 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 following publications: Robert J. Blakely's, Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality Timuel D. Black, Jr.'s, Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration  Leon Despres' , Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir Truman Gibson, Jr.'s, Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America Eric Bentley, Bentley on Brecht, Kleist Variations: Three Plays, Monstrous Martyrdoms: Three Plays, Pirandello Plays 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. Antonio Fava, The Comic Mask in the Commedia dell'Arte 2007 37th Annual University and College Designers Association Cover Design Award Patrick S. Washburn, The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom 2007 Tankard Award Adrian C. Louis, Logorrhea 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Poetry 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. Bruce Weigl, What Saves Us, Sweet Lorain, After the Others 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry Eric Bentley, Bentley on Brecht, Kleist Variations: Three Plays, Monstrous Martyrdoms: Three Plays, Pirandello Plays 2006 International Association of Theatre Critics - Thalia Prize 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. Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Certificate of Excellence Leon Despres, Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Richard Stern, Almonds to Zhoof 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award - Honorable Mention   Eric Bentley, Bentley on Brecht, Kleist Variations: Three Plays, Monstrous Martyrdoms: Three Plays, Pirandello Plays 2006 Village Voice OBIE Awards - Lifetime Achievement Award Timuel D. Black, Jr., Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2006 Jewish Council on Urban Affairs - Courageous Voices Award Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan, Lords of the Levee and Big Bill of Chicago 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Certificate of Excellence Joe Meno, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award Paquito D'Rivera, My Sax Life 2005 National Medal of Arts 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, My Sax Life, composer (Yo-Yo Ma) Track from Obrigado Brazil - Live In Concert Richard Christiansen, A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago 2005  Illinois State Historical Society Book Award- Award for Superior Achievement Yuri Andrukhovych, Perverzion (translated by Michael M. Naydan) 2005 American Association of Ukrainian Studies Translation Award Peter Esterhazy, Book of Hrabal, Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize Timuel D. Black Jr., Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Achievement in the Arts & Letters Timuel D. Black, Jr., Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration 2004 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award - Award for Superior Achievement 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 Claude Simon, The Jardin des Plantes (translated by Jordan Stump) 2002 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation Finalist Steven Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning 2002 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart 2002 PEN Open Book Award C. Dale Young, The Day Underneath the Day 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award Finalist Viacheslav Ivanov, Selected Essays (translated by Robert Bird, edited by Michael Wachtel) 2002 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English Imre Kertesz, Fateless and Kaddish for a Child Not Born 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature Claude Simon, The Jardin des Plantes (translated by Jordan Stump) 2001 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Marina Tsvetaeva, The Ratcatcher (translated by Angela Livingstone) 2000 Heldt Translation Prize Dan Zahavi, Self-Awareness and Alterity 2000 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize Kathleen Hill, Still Waters in Niger 1999 New York Times Book Review of Notable Books Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums 1999 Dublin IMPAC Literary Award (short-listed) Lala Fishman and Steven Weingartner, Lala's Story 1998 Carl Sandburg Award Kathleen Hill, Still Waters in Niger 1998 Dublin IMPAC Literary Award (short-listed) Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence 1998 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist Rafael Alberti, To Painting (translated by Carolyn Tipton) 1998 National Translation Prize 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) 1998 PEN Center West Translation Finalist Ted Anton Eros, Magic  and the Murder of Professor Culianu 1997 Carl Sandburg Award William Meredith Effort at Speech 1997 National Book Award for Poetry Isaac Levendel Not the Germans Alone 1997 Prix Fanco-European Liza Knapp, The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics 1996 AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award Peter Esterhazy, The Book of Hrabal 1995 The New York Times Review Notable Books Dubravka Ugresic, Fording the Stream of Consciousness 1993 The New York Times Review Notable Books Fyodor Dostoevsky, Writer's Diary: Volume I (translated by Kenneth Lantz) 1993 AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award Ignacy Krasicki, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (translated by Thomas H. Hoisington) 1993 PEN Translation Prize Imre Kertesz, Fateless 1992 Fifty Best Books by Publishers Weekly Peter Hayes, Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World 1992 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Linda McCarriston, Eva-Mary 1991 National Book Award for Poetry Finalist