The Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton university presses and Simon & Schuster published the 2024 PROSE Excellence Awards.
Awards: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu Wins the PROSE Hawkins Honor
Seeing what the Vietnamese experienced ‘narrated through their skin,’ NYU’s Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu wins the AAP’s 2022 RR Hawkins Award.
Sujit Sivasundaram Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize
British Academy jurors name Sujit Sivasundaram as this year’s winner for his portrayal of ‘Indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans’ in his nonfiction book ‘Waves Across the South.’
British Academy Book Prize Announces Its 2021 Shortlist
Following the Al-Rodhan partnership’s seed funding, the British Academy now carries this nonfiction prize forward.
‘Arabic Voices in Academic Publishing’: A Look at the Challenges
The importance of Arabic in the scholarly world, our experts agreed, needs to be recognized by bringing more of it to the wider conversation.
Murty Classical Library of India: Objections Over Leadership
Amid warnings that South Asians are losing the skills to…value their textual heritage, petitions call for Murty Classical’s Sheldon Pollock to step down.
Harvard U Press Introduces the Classical Library of India
With the launch of a new series of Indian classics, Harvard University Press aims to repeat what it did for Greek and Roman with the Loeb Classical Library.
Economists Speak Out on the Success of Piketty’s “Capital”
Why has Thomas Pikkety’s academically-inclined Capital in the Twenty-First Century become one of the top books of 2014? It was the right book at the right time.
Arnold Goldhammer on Making a Living from Translations
Arthur Goldhammer has translated some 130 books from the French and makes his living solely from translations, something increasingly rare today.
Piketty’s “Capital”: A Monster Hit for Harvard U Press
Harvard University Press has an unlikely bestseller with Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which has sold 80,000 copies in less than two months.