Fitzcarraldo and Bloomsbury titles win Pulitzer prizes

Titles published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Bloomsbury have won awards at the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.

Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and by NYRB in the US, won the $15,000 (£12,164) prize for fiction.

The novel – the author’s sixth – follows Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian at a prestigious university in upstate New York in the 1960s, and blends fiction with non-fiction.

The Pulitzer committee described The Netanyahus as "a mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot."

Cohen said: "I can only hope that American publishers will once again start taking the risk on literature that the Pulitzers just took––a risk for which I’m grateful."

Jacques Testard, publisher at Fitzcarraldo Editions, said: "I am absolutely delighted that Joshua Cohen has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Netanyahus. It is an extraordinarily ambitious novel that was turned down by many big houses in the US, and still didn’t have a home 18 months ago, before NYRB took it on. We are very proud to publish Joshua in the UK at Fitzcarraldo Editions – he is one of the most exciting and innovative writers in any language, and it’s about time he got this kind of recognition."

Bloomsbury’s Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I Kelly (Bloomsbury) won the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and also received $15,000 (£12,164) 

Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (Hutchinson Heinemann) won for general non-fiction, while two books were awarded in the history category this year, with Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace (Liveright) and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (Scribner) each taking home the prize.

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss (Graywolf) won the prize for poetry.

The prize spans 22 categories, 21 of which carry a $15,000 cash award and a certificate. The winner in the Public Service category of the Journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.