The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced on April 16th, 2012. To the surprise of many, no award was given in the fiction category. Links to a selection of recent news articles published about the decision not to choose a winner from the 3 finalists (Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf); and The Pale King by the late David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown and Company)) are listed below along with the complete listing of winners in the Letters, Drama, and Music categories.
Fiction: No Award
New York Times, News: Publishing Is Cranky Over Snub by Pulitzers By Julie Bosman
New York Times, Opinion: And the Winner Isn’t … By Ann Patchett
Huffington Post: And the Winner Is — Nobody by Joel Conarroe
The Economist Blog: The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Nobody wins
Drama
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
History
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by the late Manning Marable
Biography or Autobiography
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton & Company)
Music
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)
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