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Other Names: Pulitzer Preis (German)
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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in show more New York City.

There are six categories in letters and drama:

Fiction – for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Drama – for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

History – for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Biography or Autobiography – for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
Poetry – for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
General Non-Fiction – for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (627), Finalist (560), Nominee (8)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (3), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (3), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (4), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (3), 1987 (3), 1986 (3), 1985 (3), 1984 (3), 1983 (3), 1982 (3), 1981 (3), 1980 (3), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1970 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1956 (1), 1955 (1), 1953 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1950 (1), 1949 (1), 1948 (1), 1934 (1)
Announced:
2024-05-06: Winner2024 Upcoming

Winner 69

WorkYear
Trust by Hernan Diaz2023
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver2023
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen2022
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich2021
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead2020
The Overstory by Richard Powers2019
Less by Andrew Sean Greer2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead2017
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr2015
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt2014
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson2013
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan2011
Tinkers by Paul Harding2010
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout2009
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz2008
The Road by Cormac McCarthy2007
March by Geraldine Brooks2006
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson2005
The Known World by Edward P. Jones2004
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides2003
Empire Falls by Richard Russo2002
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon2001
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri2000
The Hours by Michael Cunningham1999
American Pastoral by Philip Roth1998
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser1997
Independence Day by Richard Ford1996
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields1995
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx1994
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler1993
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley1992
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike1991
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos1990
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler1989
Beloved by Toni Morrison1988
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor1987
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry1986
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie1985
Ironweed by William Kennedy1984
The Color Purple by Alice Walker1983
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike1982
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole1981
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer1980
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever1979
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson1978
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow1976
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara1975
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty1973
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner1972
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford1970
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron1968
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud1967
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter1966
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau1965
The Reivers by William Faulkner1963
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor1962
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1961
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury1960
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor1959
A Death in the Family by James Agee1958
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor1956
A Fable by William Faulkner1955
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway1953
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk1952
The Town by Conrad Richter1951
The Way West by A.B. Jr Guthrie1950
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens1949
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener1948

Finalist 88

WorkYear
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara2023
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman2022
Palmares by Gayl Jones2022
Telephone by Percival Everett2021
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason2021
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner2020
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett2020
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai2019
There There by Tommy Orange2019
The Idiot by Elif Batuman2018
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz2018
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan2017
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link2016
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble2016
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford2015
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami2015
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates2015
The Son by Philipp Meyer2014
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis2014
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander2013
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey2013
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson2012
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell2012
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace2012
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee2011
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee2011
Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories by Lydia Millet2010
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin2010
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich2009
All Souls by Christine Schutt2009
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson2008
Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories by Lore Segal2008
After This by Alice McDermott2007
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers2007
The March by E. L. Doctorow2006
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin2006
War Trash by Ha Jin2005
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just2005
American Woman by Susan Choi2004
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins2004
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett2003
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett2003
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen2002
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead2002
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates2001
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams2001
Waiting by Ha Jin2000
Close Range by Annie Proulx2000
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks1999
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver1999
Underworld by Don DeLillo1998
Bear and His Daughter by Robert Stone1998
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin1997
The Manikin by Joanna Scott1997
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos1996
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth1996
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates1995
The Collected Stories by Grace Paley1995
Collected Stories of Reynolds Price by Reynolds Price1994
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth1994
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott1993
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates1993
Mao II by Don DeLillo1992
Jernigan by David Gates1992
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan1991
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien1991
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow1990
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver1989
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson1988
That Night by Alice McDermott1988
Paradise by Donald Barthelme1987
Whites by Norman Rush1987
Continental Drift by Russell Banks1986
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler1986
I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir1985
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger1985
The Feud by Thomas Berger1984
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver1984
Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade1983
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler1983
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson1982
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone1982
Godric by Frederick Buechner1981
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell1981
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth1980
Birdy by William Wharton1980
No more sea, by Wilson Follett1934

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The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

There are six categories in letters and drama:

Fiction – for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Drama – for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

History – for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Biography or Autobiography – for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
Poetry – for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
General Non-Fiction – for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. (English, Member-written)
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir".

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation (Spanish, Member-written)

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