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Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week! Without further ado, here are the Letters, Drama and Music winners (the winners for Journalism can be found here).

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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2012

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced! Or, in the case of the Fiction award, NOT announced!  Let the heated discussion commence…

Fiction:  No award
Drama:  Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History:  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Biography:  George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Poetry:  Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
General Nonfiction:  The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt

Please click here for the entire list; I only listed the book-related awards.

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2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced.  The full list can be found here; the book category winners are:

Fiction
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Drama
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

History
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

Biography
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Poetry
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

General Nonfiction
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddharta Mukherjee

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Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Yesterday the Pulitzer Prizes were annouced.  This prestigious award is annually handed out in the categories Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music.  I’ll list the book winners below; for the rest please see the Pulitzer Prize website.

Fiction:  Tinkers by Paul Harding

Drama:  Next to Normal, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt

History:  Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World by Liaquat Ahamed

Biography or Autobiography:  The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles

Poetry:  Versed by Rae Armantrout

General Nonfiction:  The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

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Pulitzer Prizes for 2008 announced

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2008 were announced today.

The winners for Letters and Drama are:

Fiction – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (first the Tournament of Books, now this; when it rains, it pours!); Drama – August: Osage County by Tracy Letts; History – What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe; Biography – Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson; Poetry – Time and Materials by Robert Hass (he also won the National Book Award for this) and Failure by Philip Schultz; General Nonfiction – The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander.

For the winners in Journalism, Music and the Special Citation winner (he’s not there, though) and more info, click here.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoAugust: Osage CountyWhat Hath God WroughtEden’s OutcastsTime and MaterialsFailureThe Years of Extermination

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