Pulitzer Prize winners announced

In the US, the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced.

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was jointly awarded to Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver for Trust (Picador) and Demon Copperhead (A&U) respectively. Judges described Trust as ‘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’; and Demon Copperhead as ‘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’.

In other book categories, Carl Phillips won the poetry category for Then the War: And selected poems, 2007–2020; Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa won the general nonfiction category for His Name is George Floyd (Viking); the biography prize went to Beverly Gage for G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century (Viking); and the history prize went to Jefferson Cowie for Freedom’s Dominion: A saga of white resistance to federal power (Basic Books).

To view the full list of winners and finalists, see the Pulitzer website.

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