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Winners. In 31 years under the "Novel" name, the prize was awarded 27 times; in its first 76 years to 2023 under the "Fiction" name, 69 times. There have been 11 years during which no title received the award. It was shared by two authors for the first time in 2023. [2]
- 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.
- 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.
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is awarded every year by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding achievement in fiction. Preferably the work relates to life in the United States and must have been published during the award year by an American.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Find out the winners and finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction since 1917. Browse the lists by year or explore the archive of past winners and nominees.
May 8, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York.
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