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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. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one ...
Website. pulitzer.org. The Pulitzer Prizes[1] (/ ˈpʊlɪtsər / [2]) are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
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.
Three prizes. Edward Albee, Drama. Archibald MacLeish, Poetry (2) and Drama. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poetry (3) Carl Sandburg, Poetry (2) and History. Robert Penn Warren, Poetry (2) and Fiction. Thornton Wilder, Drama (2) and the Novel. Two prizes. Bernard Bailyn, History.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after its publication, and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. [ 4 ]
1. Yiddish. 1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.