Pulitzer Prize Winners 2023

On Monday, May 8th, the Pulitzer Prize winners announced! 

Below you'll find a list of many of the winners and their award winning or most recent works. 

Fiction (Two Winners)
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.

Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.

Drama
English, by Sanaz Toossi (Theatre Communications Group, Dec. 2023)
A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life.

History
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
A resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by settler colonialism and slavery, a portrait that illustrates the evolution of white supremacy by drawing powerful connections between anti-government and racist ideologies.

Feature Writing
Eli Saslow of The Washington Post
For evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality that collectively form a sharply-observed portrait of contemporary America.
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience 

Criticism
Andrea Long Chu of New York magazine
For book reviews that scrutinize authors as well as their works, using multiple cultural lenses to explore some of society’s most fraught topics.
Females

Biography
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage (Viking)
A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with monumental achievements and crippling flaws.

Memoir or Autobiography
Stay True, by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.

Poetry
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A masterful collection that chronicles American culture as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of our place in a changing global community.

General Nonfiction
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown. (Moved by the Board from the Biography category.)

The full list available at: 

www.pulitzer.org