NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize officers awarded the fiction prize to an writer with a protracted historical past in fantasy, horror and younger grownup novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for “Angel Down,” a World Struggle I narrative that unfolds in a single lengthy sentence. “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s look again on the feminist consciousness-raising teams of the Seventies obtained the drama prize.
Winners introduced Monday included two books rooted within the nation’s founding. Jill Lepore’s “We the Individuals: A Historical past of the U.S. Structure” gained for historical past, and Amanda Vaill’s “Satisfaction and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution” was the winner for biography. Yiyun Li’s “Issues in Nature Merely Develop,” her blunt account of the suicides of her two sons, was cited for memoir-autobiography. Brian Goldstone’s “There may be No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” gained for common nonfiction.
The poetry prize went to Juliana Spahr’s “Ars Poeticas,” and the music award was given to Gabriela Lena Frank for “Picaflor: A Future Fable,” a symphonic work impressed by Andean legend and California wildfires.
The 50-year-old Kraus has had a various and prolific profession that features collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro. Pulitzer officers praised “Angel Down” as “a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction right into a cohesive entire, advised in a single sentence.”
Wohl’s reminiscence play collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they sort out misogyny, internalized homophobia, home abuse and gender roles. The play navigates between previous and current, and 6 of the actors disrobe for the Act 2 opening scene. The win comes a day earlier than the Tony Award nominations, when “Liberation” is predicted to be named in one of the best new play class.
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Leisure Author Mark Kennedy contributed.
Hillel Italie, The Related Press