Percival Everett He has won the Pulitzer prize 2025 fiction by its 24th novel, James.
The fiction finalists were Headshotof Rita Bullwinkel, Mice 1961of Stacey Leviney The Unicorn Womanof Gayl Jones.
Posted in March 2024 with great criticism, James It appeared in practically all the “the best” lists of that year. He was a finalist of Booker Prize of 2024 and Premio Pen/Faulkner of fiction of 2025, and also won the national Book award of fiction of 2024. in his speech to accept that award last November, Everett He joked the judges “for putting their reputations at stake here.” He had previously declared to New Yorker that he believed that the awards were “offensive”, describing them as “envious comparisons of works of art.”
Through its editor Doubleday, Everett He declared: “I am surprised and happy, but above all surprised. It is a wonderful honor. I feel especially flattered for having been considered with the other finalists.”
James Read subversively Huckleberry Finn adventures of Mark Twain From Jim’s point of view, a enslaved father who strives to meet with his family. “The moment can be casual, but it could not be better,” Ron Charles, critic of fiction of the fiction of the Post. “Our barely the United States will tend on which books should be prohibited and how African -American history should be taught. … What better time for one of the country’s preeminent authors to conceive the central novel of the nation again?”
Everett He has long repaired ambitious and little sung book writer. (In addition to his fiction work, he has also published numerous collections of short stories and poetry, as well as a children’s book). In a 2022 profile for The PostAsali Solomon described Everett as “one of the most inimitable voices and different from contemporary American fiction” that, in some way, “remained largely unknown to conventional readers.” The following year, the novel of Everett Erasure (2001) was adapted to the film American Fiction; The script won a Oscar In the awards of the Academia of 2024. That same month it was published James.
The general non -fiction award was for To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movementof Benjamin Nathans. The finalists were Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemalaof Rachel Nolany I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in Indiaof Rollo creamy.
The book of Jason Roberts on Carl Linnaeus y Georges-Louis Leclerc, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Lifehe received the prize in biography. John Lewis: A Lifeof David Greenbergy The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorkerof Amy ReadingThey were finalists.
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoirthe story of Tessa Hulls On three generations of Chinese women, he won the Memory or Autobiography Award. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transitionof Lucy Santey Fithe memories of Alexandra Fuller On the death of his 21 -year -old son, they were finalists.
In history, the prize was shared by two books: Native Nations: A Millennium in North Americaof Kathleen DuValy Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil Warof Edda L. Fields-Black. Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slaveryof Seth RockmanHe was also a finalist.
New and Selected Poemsof Marie Howehe won the poetry award. The finalists were Bluff: Poemsof Danz Smith y An Authentic Lifeof Jennifer Chang.
Sophia Nguyen is news editor and reports for the book section of The Washington Post. Previously she was an attachment of national policy and attached editor of Outlook y PostEverything.
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