Kingsolver and Diaz among the winners of 2023 Pulitzer Prize

Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were among the winners of 2023 Pulitzer Prize, which was announced on 8th May.

Demon Copperhead (Faber & Faber) by Kingsolver, which was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Trust (Picador) by Diaz, longlisted for last year’s Booker Prize, won in the Fiction category.

Meanwhile, Olorunnipa and Samuels earned first place in General Non Fiction, and were finalists in Biography for His Name is George Floyd (Bantam). Vauhini Vara was shortlisted in the Fiction category for The Immortal King Rao (Grove Press).

The finalists in General Non-Fiction were Jing Tsu for Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Allen Lane), David George Haskell for Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Faber & Faber), and Linda Villarosa for Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation (Scribe UK).

The winner of the Biography prize was Beverly Gage for G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Simon & Schuster UK) and Jennifer Homans was a finalist for Mr B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century (Granta).

In Poetry, Carl Phillips won for his collection Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Carcanet Press), and dg nanouk okpik was a finalist for Blood Snow (Wave), alongside Jay Hopler for Still Life (McSweeney’s). And in Memoir and Autobiography, Hua Hsu won for Stay True (Doubleday), with Chloé Cooper Jones being a finalist for Easy Beauty: A Memoir (Virago), alongside Ingrid Rojas Contreras for The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Anchor Books).

In History, the winner was Jefferson Cowie for Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books), and the finalists were Michael John Witgen for Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press) and Garrett M Graff, for Watergate: A New History (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).