Pulitzer Prize for Literature 2015-2020, Current affairs

 

Pulitzer Prize for Literature

Pulitzer Prize

›  Awarded for achievements in the field of newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.

›  Prizes are awarded in 21 categories

›  Some of the categories are newspaper, journalism, literary achievements and musical compositions

2020
FICTION	The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
DRAMA	A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
HISTORY	Sweet Taste of Liberty:  A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W.Caleb Mc Daniel
BIOGRAPHY	Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
POETRY	The Tradition by Jericho Brown
NON FICTION	1.The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin 2.The Undying : Pain,Vulnerability,Mortality,Medicine, Art, Time ,Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care by Anne Boyer
2019
FICTION	The Overstory by Richard Powers
DRAMA	Fairview by Jackie Sibbles Drury
HISTORY	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W.Blight
BIOGRAPHY	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C Stewart
POETRY	Be With, by Forrest Gander
NON FICTION	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
2018
FICTION	Less by Andrew Sean Greer
DRAMA	Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
HISTORY	The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E Davis
BIOGRAPHY	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
POETRY	Half- light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
NON FICTION	Locking Up our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
2017
FICTION	The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
DRAMA	Sweat by Lynn Nottage
HISTORY	Blood in the Waters: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
BIOGRAPHY	The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
POETRY	Olio by Tyehimba Jess
NON FICTION	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in American City by Mathew Desmond
2016
FICTION	The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
DRAMA	Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda
HISTORY	Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T J Stiles
BIOGRAPHY	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William  Finnegan
POETRY	Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
NON FICTION	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
2015
FICTION	All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Deorr
DRAMA	Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
HISTORY	Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A Fenn
BIOGRAPHY	The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius Xi and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer
POETRY	Digest by Gregory Pardlo
NON FICTION	The Sixth extinction : An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert