Fiction
Congratulations to
Anthony Doerr, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel, All
The Light We Cannot See. The judges called Doerr’s book “an imaginative and
intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short,
elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of
technology." (Reviewed in this blog 3/6/15)
Other finalists for the
prize in fiction were Richard Ford for Let
Me Be Frank With You; Laila Lalami for The
Moor’s Account; and Joyce Carol Oates for Lovely, Dark, Deep.
The prize for Poetry
went to Gregory Pardlo for Digest. Other
finalists were Alan Shapiro for Reel to
Reel and Arthur Sze for Compass Rose.
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
by Elizabeth Fenn won the History Prize. Other finalists were Empire of Cotton: A Global History by
Sven Beckert and An Empire on the Edge:
How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker.
The winning book was The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History
of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer. Other
finalists were Louis Armstrong: Master of
Modernism by Thomas Brothers and Stalin:
Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
took the General Nonfiction prize. Finalists were: No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal and Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and
Faith in the New China
The
winner was Between Riverside and Crazy
by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Nominated finalists were Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks
and Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison.
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