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t. e. 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.
2019 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists
- 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.
Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by Dana Canedy at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 16, 2018. [1] The New York Times won the most awards of any newspaper, with three, bringing its total to one hundred and twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. [2] [3] The Washington Post won Investigative Reporting and National Reporting, the latter of which ...
2018 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists
The 2019Pulitzer Prize Winnerin Fiction. For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
