2013 Pulitzer Prizes: Poetry and Fiction
Woo hoo! Yay, Sharon!
Over the moon happy for her!
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Over the moon happy for her!
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POETRY
For
a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Ten thousand
dollars ($10,000).
Awarded
to “Stag's Leap,” by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of unflinching poems
on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.
Also nominated as finalists in
this category were: “Collected Poems,” by the late Jack Gilbert (Alfred A.
Knopf), a half century of poems reflecting a creative author’s commitment to
living fully and honestly and to producing straightforward work that
illuminates everyday experience with startling clarity, and “The Abundance of
Nothing,” by Bruce Weigl (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern), a powerful
collection of poems that explore the trauma of the Vietnam War and the feelings
that have never left many of those who fought in the conflict.
FICTION
For
distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American
life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded
to "The Orphan Master's Son,” by Adam Johnson (Random House), an exquisitely
crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the
depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the
human heart.
Also
nominated as finalists in this category were: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” by Nathan
Englander (Alfred A. Knopf), a
diverse yet consistently masterful collection of stories that explore Jewish
identity and questions of modern life in ways that can both delight and
unsettle the reader, and “The Snow
Child,” by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown), an enchanting novel about
an older homesteading couple who long for a child amid the harsh wilderness of
Alaska and a feral girl who emerges from the woods to bring them hope.
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