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This week, Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz became the first authors to share the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Kingsolver se Demon Copperheada modern reworking of the classic Charles Dickens book, David Copperfield, in Hernan Diaz Trustwhich deals with power and wealth in the 1920s and 1930s, received this prestigious award at the same time on Monday.
Both books tackle issues around class consciousness and money.
Diaz also won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction with Trust harvested, while Demon Copperhead Kongsolver’s second Pulitzer nomination. Her book, The Poisioned Biblealso made the shortlist in 1999.
Since 1993, each of her books, which often focus on topics such as social justice and biodiversity, have the New York Times hit the bestseller list.
The Pulitzer Prize is an American award that has been organized annually by Columbia University in New York since 1917. It is awarded in the field of print journalism, literary contributions and music composition.
This award is named after Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American reporter and newspaper publisher, who in 1911 left funds for it in his estate to the university.
Racial issues and war overarching themes among winners
Reporting of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine also drew praise at Monday’s awards event in New York.
Die New York Times won the international reporting category for its “unflinching” coverage of this conflict, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha.
Die Associated Press scooped the public service award for “courageous” reporting on the siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and also won the breaking news photography award for “unique and urgent images” of the first weeks of the conflict.
Several works with racial themes were also honored with Pulitzers on Monday, including Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ opera, Omar, which is about an Islamic scholar who is sold into slavery.
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, won the prize for general non-fiction and deals with the global impact of Floyd’s sensational death.
Rhewal it reported earlier that he died in Minneapolis in May 2020 after a police officer pressed his knee on the neck of a handcuffed Floyd, who was lying on the ground, for more than nine minutes. Footage of the incident sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter campaigns against alleged police brutality and racial discrimination in the US.
Sources: AP News, AFP, ABC News, The New York Times, Pulitzer.org.
