Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is a prestigious American literary award given annually to an outstanding work of fiction by a U.S. author.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Pulitzer Prize
literary award
administeredBy Pulitzer Prize Board
awardedFor outstanding work of fiction by a U.S. author
awardLocation New York City
categoryType American fiction
country United States
currentNameUsedFrom 1948
eligibility U.S. authors
field fiction
firstAwarded 1918
firstWinner Ernest Poole
firstWinningWork His Family
formerName Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
formerNameUsedFrom 1918
formerNameUsedUntil 1947
frequency annual
hasAwardComponent cash prize
certificate
public recognition
hasGenreFocus literary fiction
inception 1918
languageRequirement English
mediaType book
namedAfter Joseph Pulitzer
notableMultipleWinner Booth Tarkington
John Updike
William Faulkner
originalLanguageRequirement originally written in English
partOf Pulitzer Prizes
presentedBy Columbia University
prestige one of the most prestigious American literary awards
relatedAward Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize for History
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
requiresPublicationIn United States
selectionBody Pulitzer Prize Board
Pulitzer Prize jury for fiction
selectionMethod jury recommendation and board decision
sponsor endowment of Joseph Pulitzer
typicalAnnouncementMonth April
typicalEligibilityPeriod calendar year preceding the award
website https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219
workType novel
novella
short story collection

Referenced by (49)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Alice Walker
Beloved
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Cormac McCarthy
Donna Tartt
Edith Wharton
Ernest Hemingway
Eudora Welty
Harper Lee
Interpreter of Maladies
James A. Michener
Jennifer Egan
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
John Steinbeck
Margaret Mitchell
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Philip Roth
Raymond Carver ("Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist")
The Color Purple (novel)
The Executioner’s Song
The Goldfinch
Thornton Wilder ("Pulitzer Prize for the Novel")
Toni Morrison
Upton Sinclair ("Pulitzer Prize for the Novel")
Willa Cather ("Pulitzer Prize for the Novel")
Willa Cather
William Faulkner
awardReceived
One of Ours ("Pulitzer Prize for the Novel")
The Grapes of Wrath
The Old Man and the Sea
To Kill a Mockingbird
awarded
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frederick Buechner
Jonathan Franzen
Joyce Carol Oates
nominatedFor
Pulitzer Prize winners
associatedWith
Pulitzer Prize Board
awardTypeOverseen
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ("Pulitzer Prize for the Novel")
formerName
Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama, and Music
hasComponent
Pulitzer Prize
hasPart
Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama, and Music
hasSubcategory
Harper Lee ("1961 (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)")
notableAwardYear
Toni Morrison bibliography
relatedToAward
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ("Pulitzer Prize jury for fiction")
selectionBody

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