Pulitzer Prize: Colson Whitehead wins fiction award for second time
4 years, 8 months ago

Pulitzer Prize: Colson Whitehead wins fiction award for second time

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US author Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for a second time. The 50-year-old writer was awarded the prestigious prize for his 2019 novel, The Nickel Boys, which was named one of TIME magazine’s best books of the previous decade. The judges described The Nickel Boys as a “spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption.” Whitehead is only the fourth author to win the top fiction prize twice. The 2020 Pulitzer Prize ceremony was delayed due to coronavirus lockdown, with the awards eventually being announced remotely from administrator Dana Canedy’s living room.

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Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead
4 years, 5 months ago

Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year’s recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library of Congress. Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, …

Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ wins Pulitzer Prize
4 years, 8 months ago

Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ wins Pulitzer Prize

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the fiction prize Monday. Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel “The Underground Railroad.” Pulitzer judges praised “The Nickel Boys” as “a …

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