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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.
Apr 9, 2008 · Diaz. "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," the wildly original debut novel by Junot Diaz, MFA '95, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. "Wao" — the account of a young, lovesick Dominican-American misfit, his family and his native country's violent history — was published in September 2007 by Riverhead Books.
- 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.
The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 7, 2008, the 92nd annual awards. [1] The Washington Post won six awards, second only to the seven won by The New York Times in 2002 .
Other awards given in 2008. Agatha Award for Best Children/Young Adult Fiction. Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Agatha Award for Best Novel. Andre Norton Award. Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Anthony Award for Best Novel. Anthony Award for Best Paperback original. Arthur C. Clarke Award.
