Recepients, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship

 

 

Heidy Steidlmayer, Fowling Piece: Poems  

Winner, 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award 

 

A. E. Stallings, Olives: Poems 

Finalist, 2012 NBCC Award in the Poetry category

 

 

David Koker, At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943--1944

Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category

 

 

Heidy Steidlmayer, Fowling Piece 

Winner, 2012 John C. Zacharias First Book Award for best debut book by a Ploughshares writer

 

 

L.S. Asekoff, Freedom Hill 

Winner, 2012 Witter Bynner Award and Fellowship

 

Suzanne Jill Levine, The Lizard's Tale (Written by Jose Donoso)

2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation

 

Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry

Winner, 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry

 

Anne O. Fisher, The Twelve Chairs

Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation

 

 

 

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