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Book Awards > Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year. Prizes are given for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. The following books received the Pulizer Prize in 2020 for fiction, poetry, history, biography and general non fiction.
The Undying - A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother livi ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020. Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segreg ...Show more
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the founda ...Show more
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human ...Show more
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