2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Pulitzer Prize medallion

The 2022 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced!

Awarded for journalistic and artistic excellence, the Pulitzer Prize honors excellence in 21 different categories including Investigative Reporting, Criticism, Fiction, Poetry, and Music.  Check out the finalists and winners for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize below:

 

Fiction

Winners:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  Trust by Hernan Diaz

Finalist:

The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

 

Biography

Winner:

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 

Finalists:

His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans

 

Memoir or Autobiography

Winner:

Stay True by Hua Hsu 

Finalists:

Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

 

General Nonfiction

Winner:

His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa

Finalists:

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa

 

History

Winner:

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie

Finalists:

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff

 

Poetry

Winner:

Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

Finalists:

Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik still life by Jay Hopler

 

< To Pulitzer Prize Homepage

 

See More: 
Prizes and Awards
Pulitzer Prize
Bookish News