Abdul Rahman Habib wrote
Saturday, May 13, 2023 12:00 PM
The famous American Pulitzer Prize announced its awards in all categories, books, drama and music for the year 2023, and the awards came as follows.
Fiction category
“The Copperhead Devil” by Barbara Kingsolver for “Harper’s”
Trust by Hernán Diaz for Riverhead Books
Finalists:
The Immortal King Ro by writer Fawhini Fara
drama
“The English” by Sanaz Tosi, “a play”
Finalists:
In Sugarland by Alicia Harris “play”
The Far Country by Lloyd Suh “Play”
date
Freedom’s Dominion: The Epic of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Coy, Published by Basic Books
Finalists
Seeing Red: Native Lands, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Predation in North America, by Michael John Wittgen Published by Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press
“Watergate: A New History,” by Garrett M. Graff for Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
wrote a biography
J-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century on Vikings
Finalists
His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Fight for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toulouse Oloronipa for Vikings
Mr. B: The Twentieth Century by George Balanchine by Jennifer Hommans for Random House
memoirs or autobiography
“Stay Right” by Hwa Hsu for Doubleday
Finalists
Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones for Simon & Schuster
The Man Who Could Move the Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras for Doubleday
Poetry
Then War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips for Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
Finalists:
“Blood Snow” by DJ Nanuk Okpec on Wavebox.
Still life for the late Jay Hobler for the House of McSweeney
Non-fiction category
His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Fight for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toulouse Oloronipa for Vikings
Finalists:
“Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern” by Jing Zuo for Riverhead Publishing
“Wild and Broken Voices: Sonic Marvel’s Creativity, Evolution, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction” by David George Haskell for Vikings.
“Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on Our Nation’s Health” by Linda Villarosa for Doubleday
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
The Pulitzer Prize is a set of awards and grants presented annually by Columbia University in New York in the United States of America in the fields of public service, journalism, literature and music. Funded primarily by a grant from American journalism pioneer Joseph Pulitzer, the awards are highly regarded and have been awarded each May since 1917.
Fiction Award Winner “Damon Copperhead”
In this novel, Barbara Kingsolver re-imagines the famous British writer Charles Dickens’ novel “David Copperfield” in modern rural America that combats poverty and opioid addiction.
A bestseller and #1 New York Times bestseller, the novel is a heart-warming novel that evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey from birth to maturity.
The novel is about Damon Copperhead, who grows up in the southern Appalachian mountains of a teenage single mother in a trailer with no assets beyond his deceased father’s good looks and brassy hair, as he navigates life facing dangers in foster care, child labor, abandoned schools, athletic success, addiction, And overwhelming losses.
Dozens of years ago, Charles Dickens David Copperfield wrote from his experience as a survivor of poverty and its harm to children in his community. These problems have not yet been solved in our problem, and although the author follows the theme of Charles Dickens, knowledge of the events of Dickens’s novel is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel.
In the new novel, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’s rage and compassion, and above all his belief in the transformative powers of life. It also brings out protagonist Damon Copperhead’s thoughts on a new generation of lost boys, all those born in places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
It is noteworthy that Barbara Kingsolver is an American writer who grew up in rural Kentucky and obtained degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona before becoming an independent writer and author. She lived at different times in her life in England, France and the Canary Islands and worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico and South America. Two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to Southwest Virginia, where she currently resides.
