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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
Writers who have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (since 1949). This award replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (given from 1918 to 1947). For articles about the writers: Category:Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners (1918–1947) Category:Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners (1948–present) For articles about the books:
An example of a writing field that has been expanded was the former Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), which has been changed to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which also includes short stories, novellas, novelettes, and poetry, as well as novels. Chronology of Pulitzer Prize categories
It won a National Book Award [1] [2] and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. [ 16 ] Powers's tenth novel, 2009's Generosity: An Enhancement , has writing professor Russell Stone encountering his former student, Thassa, an Algerian woman whose constant happiness is exploited by journalists and scientists.
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.
Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the only person to have received a prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943.
These books have won the annual American Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1948. See also Category:Pulitzer Prize for the Novel–winning works (1918–1947). For biographies of the writers, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners and Category:Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.
She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. [2] Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [ 3 ] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction [ 4 ] and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name .