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
