Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Date: April 18, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 winners of America’s most prestigious literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, have been announced. This year’s winners in the $10,000 fiction categories, which award works “preferably dealing with American life”, are:
FICTION: The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, `each other’s world entire’, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
You can read more about The Road at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
DRAMA: Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
A story of loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness-told through daily moments and emotional hurdles-as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old. With a critically acclaimed Broadway premiere, featuring Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole has been hailed as an artistic breakthrough for the highly regarded David Lindsay-Abaire.
You can read more about Rabbit Hole at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
POETRY: Native Guard
by Natasha Trethewey
A daughter of the American South and a child of an interracial marriage that defied a law still on the books in 1966 Mississippi, Natasha Trethewey does not shy away from the difficult themes that plague the region’s past. At the spine of this collection is the forgotten story of the Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments called into service during the Civil War. The racial legacy of this war echoes through elegiac poems that honor Trethewey’s mother and tell of her own fraught childhood. A haunted and beguiling narrative, Native Guard is caught in the intersection of national and personal experience.
You can read more about Native Guard at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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