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June 11, 2021By Erin Somers

Erdrich Wins Fiction Pulitzer

June 11, 2021By Erin Somers

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Friday afternoon, with Louise Erdrich winning the fiction prize for The Night Watchman. The rest of the winners and finalists:

Fiction

The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper)

Finalists

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown)
Telephone, by Percival Everett (Graywolf)

History

Franchise, Marcia Chatelain (Liveright)

Finalists

The Deviant’s War, by Eric Cervini (FSG)
The Three-Cornered War, by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)

Biography

The Dead Are Arising, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright)

Finalists

Red Comet, by Heather Clark (Knopf)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City, by Amy Stanley (Scribner)

Nonfiction

Wilmington’s Lie, by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly)

Finalists

Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong (One World)
Yellow Bird, by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)

Poetry

Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf)

Finalists

A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions)
In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)

Drama

The Hot Wing King, Katori Hall

Finalists

Circle Jerk, by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
Stew, by Zora Howard

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