Paul Theroux has won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Organizers said, "The acclaimed American travel writer and novelist, best known for The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), has enjoyed a long career studded with accolades, awards and honours. A number of Theroux's novels have been made into films and later this year Apple Films will release a ten-part TV series based on his Mosquito Coast."
Vivien Godfrey, chairman and CEO of Stanfords, added: "Paul has enjoyed a truly global existence, spending time in Malawi and Uganda, Singapore and London, as well as his native home in America. His travel writing consequently carries rich descriptions, portraying an intimate knowledge and understanding of the people and places he has been. His epic trips, undertaken on foot, by road, and rail--and on occasion in a kayak--embody the spirit of a true adventurer and that is at the very heart of all we do at Stanfords--many congratulations and well deserved Paul."
Winners in the Stanford Awards' 10 travel writing categories are:
Travel Book: Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Travel Memoir: A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
Photography Travel Book: Trope City Editions (second volume) by Sam Landers and Tom Maday
Illustrated Travel Book: Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough
Children's Travel Book: Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin
Food & Drink Travel Book: Fire Islands by Eleanor Ford
Fiction With a Sense of Place: Little Faith by Nicholas Butler
Travel Adventure: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Debut Travel Writer: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies
New Travel Writer: Close to Home by Kirstin Zhang
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The winners of the PROSE Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and honoring scholarly publications that are best in class, are:
Biological & Life Sciences: Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice by S. Nassir Ghaemi (Oxford University Press)
Humanities: Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered by Carmen C. Bambach (Yale University Press)
Physical Sciences & Mathematics: 99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording (Princeton University Press)
Reference Works: Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity by Fikret Yegül and Diane Favro (Cambridge University Press)
Social Sciences: The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks (Stanford University Press)
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Vivien Godfrey, chairman and CEO of Stanfords, added: "Paul has enjoyed a truly global existence, spending time in Malawi and Uganda, Singapore and London, as well as his native home in America. His travel writing consequently carries rich descriptions, portraying an intimate knowledge and understanding of the people and places he has been. His epic trips, undertaken on foot, by road, and rail--and on occasion in a kayak--embody the spirit of a true adventurer and that is at the very heart of all we do at Stanfords--many congratulations and well deserved Paul."
Winners in the Stanford Awards' 10 travel writing categories are:
Travel Book: Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Travel Memoir: A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
Photography Travel Book: Trope City Editions (second volume) by Sam Landers and Tom Maday
Illustrated Travel Book: Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough
Children's Travel Book: Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin
Food & Drink Travel Book: Fire Islands by Eleanor Ford
Fiction With a Sense of Place: Little Faith by Nicholas Butler
Travel Adventure: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Debut Travel Writer: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies
New Travel Writer: Close to Home by Kirstin Zhang
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The winners of the PROSE Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and honoring scholarly publications that are best in class, are:
Biological & Life Sciences: Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice by S. Nassir Ghaemi (Oxford University Press)
Humanities: Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered by Carmen C. Bambach (Yale University Press)
Physical Sciences & Mathematics: 99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording (Princeton University Press)
Reference Works: Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity by Fikret Yegül and Diane Favro (Cambridge University Press)
Social Sciences: The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks (Stanford University Press)
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Finalists for the 2019 Nebula Awards, sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, have been announced and can be seen here. Awards will be presented May 30 during the SFWA Nebula Conference, which takes place May 28-31 in Los Angeles.