The Pulitzer Prize for Literature Winners 2019

The Pulitzer Prize is less a literature prize and more a prize for the arts, awarding prizes for literature, drama, music, and journalism. As readers, we are of course interested in the literature prizes and as the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced last night, we have those for you now.

The main literature prize this year goes to Richard Powers for his novel, The Overstory, described as “an ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them.”

Here’s that and the other Pulitzer Prize winners for literature 2019.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019

Overstory

Pulitzer Prize for History 2019

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2019

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2019

Be With

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2019

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America