Awards: Johnson Claims Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Publishers Lunch

A year after failing to declare a winner in the fiction category last year (bypassing 2007 Granta Best Young American novelist list member Karen Russell's Swamplandia!, now up for an IMPAC; Denis Johson's Train Dreams; and David Foster Wallace's The Pale King), the Pulitzer Prize has gone back to normal, naming Adam Johnson as the winner in fiction for The Orphan Master's Son (Random House).

 

Finalists in fiction included The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur Books) and Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf).

The winners in other book categories include:

Nonfiction
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys by Gilbert King (Harper)

History
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (Random House)

Biography
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (Crown)

Poetry
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds (Knopf)

Drama
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar [also the author of the novel American Dervish (Little, Brown)]

For other finalists, click through to the Pulitzer site.

Meanwhile, Granta has announced its periodic 2013 roster of Best Young British Novelists, as Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell repeat from the 2003 roster. All 20 authors have excerpts from forthcoming works in Granta's issue 123, which goes on sale in print, ebook, and unabridged audio editions Tuesday. The full list is below, and we have noted the most recently published/available US edition (in some cases their most recent work is not published in the US yet):

Naomi Alderman, The Liar's Gospel
Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim
Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident
Jenni Fagan, (not published in the US yet)
Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze
Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of A Ravenous Youth
Sarah Hall, Haweswater
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Text
Joanna Kavenna, The Birth of Love
Benjamin Markovits, A Quiet Adjustment
Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
Ross Raisin, Waterline
Sunjeev Sahota, Ours Are the Streets
Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go
Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
Zadie Smith, NW
David Szalay, Spring
Adam Thirlwell, The Escape
Evie Wyld, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

At Bookateria, we're featuring a review of the previous Granta honorees. We've highlighted the most recently released (and still available) titles from the 2007 and 1996 Best Young American Novelist lists, and the 2003 and 1993 Best Young British Novelist lists. Test yourself to see how many you many remember, and enjoy a fine survey of talented writers from multiple generations.