The Association of American Publishers has announced the Excellence winners of its annual PROSE Awards--recognizing best-in-class scholarly publications--as well as the R.R. Hawkins Award, the overall prize.
The winner of the Hawkins Award--and winner of the Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences Award--is The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate by Nicolas Mathevon (Princeton University Press)
The other three Excellence winners are:
Humanities: Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility by Henrike Christiane Lange (Cambridge University Press)
Physical Sciences and Mathematics: Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain by Sonja K. Pieck (The MIT Press)
Social Sciences: Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht (Duke University Press)
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The shortlist has been selected for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. The winner, who receives £30,000 (about $37,760), will be announced June 13.
Chair of judges Suzannah Lipscomb said, "Our magnificent shortlist is made up of six powerful, impressive books that are characterised by the brilliance and beauty of their writing and which each offer a unique, original perspective. The readers of these books will never see the world--be it through art, history, landscape, politics, religion or technology--the same again."
The shortlist:
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
A Flat Place: A Memoir by Noreen Masud
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Finalists have been selected for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which honors "emerged and continually emerging authors of major consequence--short stories and/or novels--at the relative midpoint of a burgeoning career," and is sponsored by the New Literary Project. The winner, who receives $50,000 and will have a brief fall residence at the University of California, Berkeley, will be announced in April. The finalists:
Jamel Brinkley whose most recent book is Witness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Patricia Engel, The Faraway World (Avid Reader)
Ben Fountain, Devil Makes Three (Flatiron)
Idra Novey, Take What You Need (Viking)
Bennett Sims, Other Minds and Other Stories (Two Dollar Radio)