Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts
Posted on: May 06, 2025 02:29 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Percival Everett's refreshing james iv, his basal re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the linear perspective of the enslaved rubric character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. The latter also earned six Tony Award nominations last week.
Everett's Pulitzer confirmed James as the most celebrated U.S. Literary novel of 2024, and accelerated the 68-year-old author's remarkable rise after decades of being little known to the general public.
Since 2021, he has won the PEN/Jean Stein Award for Dr. No, was a Pulitzer finalist for Telephone and on the Booker shortlist for The Trees. Before Monday, James already had won the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize and the Carnegie Medal for fiction. His racial and publishing satire Erasure, released in 2001, was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2023 film American Fiction.
The Pulitzer citation called James an "accomplished reconsideration" that illustrates "the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom."
Purpose was praised in its citation as "a skillful blend of drama and comedy that probes how different generations define heritage." Jacobs-Jenkins had been twice nominated for a drama Pulitzer, for Everybody in 2018 and Gloria in 2016.
He won the Tony Award for best play revival last year for Appropriate, a work centred around a family reunion in Arkansas where everyone has competing motivations and grievances. He is on the host committee of this year's Met Gala.
Also Monday, Pulitzer officials announced that Jason Roberts won the biography award for Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life and Benjamin Nathans's To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement had been cited for general nonfiction.
Two books were announced as history winners, both of them, like James and Purpose, explorations of race in U.S. History and culture: Edda L. Fields-Black's Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War and Kathleen DuVal's Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
Marie Howe's New and Selected Poems won for poetry, and composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands, an eight-piece ensemble inspired by the rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines, was awarded the Pulitzer for music.
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