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May 9, 2022By Katy Hershberger

Cohen’s The Netanyahus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

May 9, 2022By Katy Hershberger

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, with the fiction prize going to The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen, winner of a Jewish Book Award and an NBCC finalist. The novel is one of few audiobooks published by Pushkin Industries, and has sold approximately 11,500 trade paperbacks since publication in June 2021 according to NPD Bookscan.

Among publishers, Norton had the most placements with one winner and four finalists. The full list:

Fiction
The Netanyahus, by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)

Finalists
Monkey Boy, by Francisco Goldman (Grove)
Palmares, by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press)

History
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, by Nicole Eustace (Liveright)
Cuba: An American History, by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)

Finalists
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, by Kate Masur (Norton)

Biography
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury)

Finalists
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura (Norton)
Pessoa: A Biography, by Richard Zenith (Liveright)

Nonfiction
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, by Andrea Elliott (Random House)

Finalists
Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism, by Carla Power (One World)
The Family Roe: An American Story, by Joshua Prager (Norton)

Poetry
frank: sonnets, by Dianne Seuss (Graywolf)

Finalists
Yellow Rain, by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf)
Refractive Africa, by Will Alexander (New Directions)

Drama
“Fat Ham,” by James Ijames

Finalists
“Selling Kabul,” by Sylvia Khoury
“Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord,” by Kristina Wong

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