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Jayne Anne Phillips and Nathan Thrall win 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
Jayne Anne Phillips has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Night Watch (published in the UK by Fleet).
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by Columbia University, and the winners are selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board. They each receive a $15,000 (£11,970) cash award and a certificate.
In the General Nonfiction category, the winner was Nathan Thrall, for his account of life in the occupied West Bank, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Allen Lane).
The Memoir/Autobiography prize was awarded to Cristina Rivera Garza, for Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice (Bloomsbury), which is described as “memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss”.
Jonathan Fig is the winner in the Biography category, for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr, King: A Life (Simon & Schuster UK), alongside Ilyon Woo, who jointly won the prize for Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Bonnier Books UK). In Poetry, the prize was awarded to Brandon Som, for Tripas: Poems (University of Georgia Press).
Finally, in the History category, Jacqueline Jones emerged as the winner for No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Basic Books).
