Here are this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.
The winners and nominated finalists of the 106th Pulitzer Prizes were announced today via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention an instant ticket into a very illustrious club.
The full list of winners and nominated finalists from the arts & letters categories are below.
Drama
James Ijames, Fat Ham
Finalists:
Sylvia Khoury, Selling Kabul
Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
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History
Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History
Finalist:
Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Biography
The late Winifred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Finalists:
Richard Zenith, Pessoa: A Biography
Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brough Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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Poetry
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
Finalists:
Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain
Will Alexander, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
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General Nonfiction
Andrea Elliott,
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Finalists:
Carla Power, Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
Joshua Prager, The Family Roe
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Music
Raven Chacon, Voiceless Mass
Finalists:
Andy Akiho, Seven Pillars
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, with eyes the color of time
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Fiction
Joshua Cohen,
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Finalists:
Francisco Goldman, Monkey Boy
Gayl Jones, Palmares
