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The winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize have been announced. In the category ‘fiction’, Colson Whitehead won the award for his novel The Nickel Boys. This is the second award for the American writer who, in 2017, won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Underground Railroad.
The winners in the category ‘literature’:
- Fiction – The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
- Drama – A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson
- History – Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, W. Caleb McDaniel
- Biography – Sontag: Her Life and Work, Benjamin Moser
- Poetry – The Tradition, Jericho Brown
- General Nonfiction – The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Greg Grandin; The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, Anne Boyer
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1917 for outstanding achievements in journalism, literature, and music.