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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded for distinguished fiction, preferably about American life, written by American writers.

2010 Winner:

Author 

Title 

Paul Harding

Tinkers 

2010 Shortlist:

Author 

Title 

Lydia Millet 

Love in Infant Monkeys 

Daniyal Mueenuddin 

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 

Past Winners:

Year

Author 

Title 

1980

Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song

1981

John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

1982

John Updike

Rabbit is Rich

1983

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

1984

William Kennedy

Ironweed

1985

Alison Lurie

Foreign Affairs

1986

Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

1987

Peter Taylor

A Summons to Memphis

1988

Toni Morrison

Beloved

1989

Anne Tyler

Breathing Lessons

1990

Oscar Hijuelos

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1991

John Updike

Rabbit At Rest

1992

Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres

1993

Robert Olen Butler

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain

1994

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

1995

Carol Shields

The Stone Diaries

1996

Richard Ford

Independence Day

1997

Steven Millhauser

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1998

Philip Roth

American Pastoral

1999

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

2000

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies

2001

Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

2002

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

2003

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2004

Edward P. Jones

The Known World

2005

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2006

Geraldine Brooks

March

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2008

Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2009 

Elizabeth Strout 

Olive Kitteridge

Thursday, May 17, 2012


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