Honors and Awards
The recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes, LSU Press is the only university press to have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry. LSU books have also earned other honors, including the following:
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Man Booker Prize
- American Book Award
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Bancroft Prize
- Lincoln Prize
- Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets
LSU Press authors have also been awarded prizes such as the following for their general body of work:
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Cleveland Foundation
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Guggenheim Foundation
- Poetry Foundation
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