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April 18, 2006

2006 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Since I'm a book nut I'll mention those Pulitzer Prizes announced yesterday:

Fiction: March by Geraldine Brooks.
History: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky.
Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Poetry: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson.
General Non-Fiction: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins.

Even being in the book business I never heard of the fiction, history, or general non-fiction winners. (Modern poetry is on an entirely separate wavelength.) That demonstrates there are thousands of books coming out every year. There's more good reading material published in one year than any one can read in a lifetime. These are good times to love books.

I wonder how the drama nominees feel. No one took the award. Were they all so equal--either good or bad--that the committee didn't want one to stand out?

Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Books at 12:12 AM | Comments (0)

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