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    Here are this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

    Jonny Diamond
    By 
    May 9, 2022, 3:44pm

    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

    *

    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

    *

    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

    *

    Poetry

    Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

    Finalists:

    Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

    Will Alexander, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

    *

    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

    *

    Music

    Raven Chacon, Voiceless Mass

    Finalists:

    Andy Akiho, Seven Pillars

    Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, with eyes the color of time

    *

    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

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