Competition: Win a signed copy of Francis Spufford’s True Stories & Other Essays
Competition time! How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must…
Prizes and Competitions
An Animated World: Interview with Poet Arda Collins
Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual ‘Yale Series of Younger Poets’ competition. Mesmerizing and electric,…
Sue Prideaux, whose biography of Strindberg has just been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, reflects on a memorable year for art and biography
Strindberg: A Life has been chosen as one of the 14 titles on the Longlist for the 2012…
*Now Closed* Competition: Win a copy of Pevsner Kent
Congratulations to the winner of our Pevsner competition! Further thanks to all those who entered.
Yale books prevail at the 2012 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History
Yale University Press is proud to announce that The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman has been awarded…
Competition: Win a copy of Norman Manea’s ‘The Lair’ and a Margellos canvas tote bag
To celebrate the new titles in our pioneering Margellos World Republic of Letters translation series, for the rest of the…
Beautiful Province by Clarence Coo Wins the 2012 Yale Drama Series Award
The winner of the Yale Drama Series Award for Emerging Playwrights is Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province. After much…
Prize news: ‘An Empire of Ice’ by Edward Larson is shortlisted for the 2012 Hessell-Tiltman award
Edward Larson’s acclaimed book on exploration and antarctic science An Empire of Ice has been shortlisted for the coveted Hessell-Tiltman…
Will Schutt wins the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012
Will Schutt has been awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012. Schutt’s volume Westerly will be published in…
‘The Unfinished Revolution’ is shortlisted for the Longman-History Today ‘Book of the Year’ Award
James Mark’s comprehensive book The Unfinished Revolution has been shortlisted for the prestigious Longman-History Today ‘Book of the Year’ Award….
Pevsner 60th Anniversary Photography Competition: Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Nick Haynes, whose photograph of Charing Cross Mansions, Glasgow has won the Pevsner 60th Anniversary Photography Competition….
Yale’s London website is shortlisted for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Digital Innovation Awards
Yale University Press London’s website (yalebooks.co.uk), has been nominated for a Futurebook Digital Innovation Award, in the ‘best…
The Longman-History Today Book of the Year longlist is announced, with three Yale titles in the running
Yesterday evening History Today magazine announced the longlist for the prestigious Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award….
Books Unbound: Non-Fiction Literary Prizes. Are they Useful?
It has been an exciting year for Yale University Press titles, with a large selection winning prestigious literary…
Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize for ‘Boyle: Between God and Science’
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and…