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

See the full list of winners here.

Emily Temple

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.