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Joshua Cohen. 2023. Demon Copperhead. Barbara Kingsolver. Trust. Hernan Diaz. * Work published and prize awarded posthumously. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is awarded every year by Columbia ...
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one ...
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If the author does not desire to accept the money which goes to the author of the successful book, why of course he is at liberty to return it, but the award itself will stand.” Arrowsmith is still considered the 1926 Pulitzer Prize Novel winner. In 1930, Lewis accepted the Nobel Prize and its $46,350 prize.
- 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie. A sequel to the novel The Big Sky, Dick Summers returns to the West to guide settlers on a journey across the frontier to Oregon.
- 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter. Sayward Luckett and her family of American pioneers struggle to till and shape their plot of wilderness into civilization in the 19th century.
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. A mutiny unfolds aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific seas during World War II, highlighting the moral dilemmas of war.
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. A Cuban fisherman navigates the gulf stream, killing and ultimately losing a giant Marlin.
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.
- Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books) A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
- The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
- The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination.
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. 2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. 2012: No prize awarded. 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding. 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
May 11, 1984 · Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography, which had two winners. Here ...
