There just isn’t any fiction worthy of the Pulitzer award this year!
May 31, 2012
Do you believe that?
The Pulitzer prize winners for 2012 have been announced and disappointingly, no award was announced for fiction this year. The last time there was no award for fiction was in 1977. “I’m angry on behalf of those novels,” declared Maureen Corrigan, one of the judges. The three nominated novels were:-
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- The pale king: An unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace
- Train dreams by Denis Johnson
Joseph Pulitzer was the Hungarian-born American journalist who, by making specific provision in his will, established the Pulitzer prizes for journalism, literature, drama and the arts. His aim was to inspire excellence in the arts, particularly in the area of writing.
The book awards this year include; for history Malcolm X: a life of reinvention, by Manning Marable and for general non-fiction The swerve, how the world became modern, by Stephen Greenblatt.
In 2011 A visit from the goon squad, by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer award for fiction. Sarah Churchwell in the Guardian described the book as “an exceptional rendering of contemporary America”.
Which book would you have given the Pulitzer award for fiction to this year?
May 31, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I finished reading “The Swerve” a couple of weeks ago. It is a great book that covers many stages of human history and different aspects of philosophy, science and religion. Definitely, this work deserves the award.