Prominent authors Percival Everett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins earn Pulitzer Prize accolades in the realm of art.
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Congratulations are in order for Percival Everett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins - they've snatched up this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction and drama, respectively!
Everett's triumph, "James," an impressive reinterpretation of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," sheds light on racial supremacy's absurdity and offers a unique spin on quests for family and freedom. This win comes on the heels of Everett's ascent in the literary world, having previously bagged the PEN/Jean Stein Award, landed on the Booker Prize shortlist, and nabbed an National Book Award, Kirkus Prize, and Carnegie Medal for fiction. Notably, his satirical novel "Erasure" was reimagined into the 2023 Academy Award-nominated film, "American Fiction."
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Purpose," meanwhile, has been celebrated as a masterful amalgamation of drama and comedy that penetrates the complexities related to heritage within an accomplished Black family. He has previously been twice nominated for Pulitzer Drama, with "Everybody" in 2018 and "Gloria" in 2016. Last year, Jacobs-Jenkins won a Tony Award for the revival of "Appropriate," a work centered on a family reunion where everyone has divergent motivations and grievances.
The Pulitzers didn't stop there! The biography accolade went to Jason Roberts for "Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life," and Benjamin Nathans' "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" took home a citation for general nonfiction.
Two books triumphed in the history category: Edda L. Fields-Black's "Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" and Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."
Marie Howe's "New and Selected Poems" won the prestigious poetry category, while Susie Ibarra's "Sky Islands," an eight-piece ensemble inspired by the rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines, took home the Pulitzer for music.
Sources:
[1] AP News - "Adaptation of Percival Everett's novel 'Erasure' earns Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay" (2023)
[2] UCLA School of Arts and Architecture - "2022's Pulitzer Prize Winners" (2022)
[3] Academy of American Poets - "Marie Howe" (n.d.)
[4] Poets.org - "Marie Howe's New & Selected Poems" (n.d.)
- In 2023, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was confirmed for Percival Everett's book, "James," which offers a defining exploration of racial supremacy's absurdity and quests for family and freedom.
- The entertainment world is buzzing about James, an adaptation of Percival Everett's novel, which was reimagined into the 2023 Academy Award-nominated film, "American Fiction."
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, defines the complexities of heritage within an accomplished Black family in his work "Purpose."
- This year's Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category goes to Marie Howe for her book, "New and Selected Poems."
