Colson Whitehead Wins the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride in the World Room at Columbia University. The announcement began with a sly dig at the Oscars: “Just making sure I have the right envelope,” Pride deadpanned. On the subject of nonfiction, he said: “The work that wins Pulitzer prizes reminds us that we are not in a period of decline in journalism; rather we are in the midst of a revolution.” Then he went on to announce the 2017 winners in 21 categories. The winners in Arts & Letters are below:
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Fiction)
Sweat, Lynn Nottage (Drama)
Blood in the Water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, Heather Ann Thompson (History)
The Return, Hisham Matar (Biography or Autobiography)
Olio, Tyehimba Jess (Poetry)
Evicted, Matthew Desmond (General Nonfiction)
Originally published in Literary Hub.
