DelhiDesk Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust” have jointly won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Kingsolver’s novel was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as a top release last year, while Diaz’s book won the Kirkus Prize for fiction and was a long-listed entry for the Booker Prize. Several other works with racial themes were also honoured, including Beverly Gage’s “G-Man,” Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” and Jefferson Cowie’s “Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.” The prize for music went to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for the opera “Omar.”
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👉 The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded to two novels: “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Trust” by Hernan Diaz.
👉 Other works with racial themes were also honored, including “G-Man” by Beverly Gage and “His Name Is George Floyd” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa.
👉 Sanaz Toossi’s play “English” won for drama, while Hua Hsu’s “Stay True” won for memoir or autobiography and Carl Phillips won in poetry.
👉 Kingsolver said the Pulitzer is an affirmation of her novel and a misunderstood and overlooked part of the country.
👉 The author of “English” is an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, California.
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