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07.Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
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Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury |
Jackie Sibblies Drury's play 'Fairview' won the the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019. The play is called "a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure,ultimately bringing audiences into the actors' community to face deep-seated prejudices," by Pulitzer.org .(Photo: Pulitzer.org) TNN
06.Be With by Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander's poetry collection 'Be
With' won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
2019 for being "a collection of elegies
that grapple with sudden loss, and
the difficulties of expressing grief and
yearning for the departed," according
to Pulitzer.org .(Photo: W. W. Norton &
Company) TNN
05.Frederick Douglass: Prophet of
David W. Blight's book 'Frederick
Douglass: Prophet of Freedom' won the
Pulitzer Prize 2019 for History. The book is "an important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth's 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet's most diverse and productive marine ecosystems,"according to Pulitzer.org .(Photo: Simon & Schuster) TNN
Eliza Griswold's book 'Amity and Pros-
perity: One Family and the Fracturing
of America' won the Pulitzer Prize 2019
for Non-fiction. The book is "a classic
American story, grippingly told, of an
Appalachian family struggling to retain
its middle class status in the shadow
of destruction wreaked by corporate
fracking," according to Pulitzer.org .
(Photo: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) TNN
05.Frederick Douglass: Prophet of
Freedom by David W. Blight
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of
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Douglass: Prophet of Freedom' won the
Pulitzer Prize 2019 for History. The book is "an important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth's 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet's most diverse and productive marine ecosystems,"according to Pulitzer.org .(Photo: Simon & Schuster) TNN
04.Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold |
perity: One Family and the Fracturing
of America' won the Pulitzer Prize 2019
for Non-fiction. The book is "a classic
American story, grippingly told, of an
Appalachian family struggling to retain
its middle class status in the shadow
of destruction wreaked by corporate
fracking," according to Pulitzer.org .
(Photo: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) TNN
03.The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart |
Negro: The Life of Alain Locke' won the
Pulitzer Prize 2019 for Autobiography
or Biography. The book gives "a
panoramic view of personal trials and
artistic triumphs of the father of the
Harlem Renaissance and the movement
he inspired," reads a statement on
Pulitzer.org .(Photo: Oxford University
Press) TNN
02.The Overstory by Richard Powers
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The Overstory by Richard Powers |
Overstory' won the Pulitzer Prize 2019
for Fiction. "An ingeniously structured
narrative that branches and canopies
like the trees at the core of the story
whose wonder and connectivity echo
those of the humans living amongst
them," reads a statement in praise of
the book on Pulitzer.org . The novel was
also shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, which is yet to be announced.(Photo: William Heinemann) TNN
01.The Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prize |
announced the Pulitzer Prize winners
for 2019 at the Columbia University's
Graduate School of Journalism in New
York City on April 15, 2019. The Pulitzer
Prize administration gives prizes across
21 categories in journalism, and the
arts every year. The various categories
in arts (Letters, Drama and Music)
include-- Fiction, Non-fiction, Drama,
History, Autobiography or Biography,
Poetry, Music. Each Pulitzer Prize winner receives $15,000 (INR 1042927.50) along with the honour and the lifelong nomer of being a "Pulitzer Prize winner". This year, American singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin was posthumously given the Pulitzer Prize's Special Citation, "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades,"
the Pulitzer Prize board said; while prism by Ellen Reid won the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2019. Not to forget, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the biggest awards in literature. So if you are an avid reader and a book lover, then you should add these five books and one play chosen for various categories to your reading list, right now!(Photo: The Pulitzer Prizes/ Twitter) TNN
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