The goldfinch pulitzer prize6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() On the Journalism front, the winners list acts as a searing reminder of the stubborn impasse between civil liberties and national security, as well as the challenges Americans continue to face in the wake of the contracting economy and terrorist threats. Playwright Annie Baker earned the Pulitzer in Drama for her three-hour play The Flick. ![]() Bass and The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan. Donna Tartt has won The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her highly acclaimed novel The Goldfinch, beating out Philipp Meyer’s epic, and epically praised The Son and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis. Released in October 2013 - 11 years after her hailed sophomore novel The Little Friend and 22 years after her bestselling debut The Secret History - The Goldfinch was hotly anticipated and immediately rocketed to multiple “ Best of 2013” lists, landing on several long and shortlists. Last month, The Goldfinch was edged out by Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and will go up against Americanah again in June as both books have been shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction.ĭan Fagin’s Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation took the Non-Fiction Prize, edging out nominees The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. ![]()
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