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Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes. Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum right after the war, was cited for fiction. Jacqueline Jones received the history prize for “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of …

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Pulitzer Prize board expands eligibility pool for arts awards to non-U.S. citizens
1 year, 3 months ago

Pulitzer Prize board expands eligibility pool for arts awards to non-U.S. citizens

LA Times  

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Tuesday that it will be expanding eligibility for its books, drama and music awards to include some non-U.S. citizens. Per the committee’s current rules, the prizes given to authors, playwrights and musicians had previously been available only for U.S. citizens, but starting with the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes the awards will be open to permanent U.S. …

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See more about the 2023 Pulitzer winners in journalism, arts
1 year, 7 months ago

See more about the 2023 Pulitzer winners in journalism, arts

Associated Press  

The Pulitzer Prizes recognizing the best of journalism and the arts in 2022 were announced Monday. Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe’s “The Backchannel” series detailed how state officials misspent millions in welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the United States. COMMENTARY: Kyle Whitmire, AL.com Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham, won for “State of …

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Two novels share Pulitzer in fiction as ‘His Name Is George Floyd’ wins for nonfiction
1 year, 7 months ago

Two novels share Pulitzer in fiction as ‘His Name Is George Floyd’ wins for nonfiction

LA Times  

Two novels, “Demon Copperhead” and “Trust,” shared the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, while “His Name Is George Floyd” took home the nonfiction prize. Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” won for nonfiction. But Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, said the addition was made “at the urging …

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Joshua Cohen, the late Winfred Rembert win arts Pulitzers
2 years, 7 months ago

Joshua Cohen, the late Winfred Rembert win arts Pulitzers

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus,” a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Raven Chacon, the first Native American composer to win a Pulitzer, was honored in the music category for “Voiceless Mass.” …

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Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage
2 years, 7 months ago

Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan. The Miami Herald took the breaking news …

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‘The Night Watchman,’ Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers
3 years, 6 months ago

‘The Night Watchman,’ Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the U.S. swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts, from Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Night Watchman” to a Malcolm X biography co-written by the late Les Payne to Katori Hall’s play “The Hot Wing King.” The awards were announced Friday during a remote ceremony that honored the best work in …

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Artists must sound the alarm
4 years ago

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Artists must sound the alarm

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Tess Taylor is the author of the poetry collections “Work & Days,” “The Forage House” and most recently, “Rift Zone” and “Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange.” Views expressed in this commentary are solely hers. CNN — Somewhere in the middle of “Homeland Elegies,” the sprawling, ambitious novel published earlier this year by playwright Ayad Akhtar, the main …

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