Here are this year's Pulitzer Prize winners.
The winners and nominated finalists of the 107th 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.
Fiction
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Trust, by Hernan Diaz
Finalist:
The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara
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Drama
English, by Sanaz Toossi
Finalists:
On Sugarland, by Aleshea Harris
The Far Country, by Lloyd Suh
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History
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson Cowie
Finalists:
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, by Michael John Witgen
Watergate: A New History, by Garrett M. Graff
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Biography
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage
Finalists:
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century, by Jennifer Homans
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Memoir
Stay True, by Hua Hsu
Finalists:
Easy Beauty: A Memoir, by Chloé Cooper Jones
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Poetry
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips
Finalists:
Blood Snow, by dg nanouk okpik
Still Life, by Jay Hopler
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General Nonfiction
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Finalists:
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David George Haskell
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa
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Music
Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
Finalists:
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), by Tyshawn Sorey
Perspective, by Jerrilynn Patton
Emily Temple
Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
