2012普利策奖

【今年普利策奖评选过程中最引人瞩目的话题自然是普利策文学奖的空缺。对此结果,众说纷纭,各自都有不同的解读。毕竟,这是30多年来的又一次空缺。以下是来自USA TODAY一篇有关今年普利策奖相关情况的报道】

This Pulitzer race is one for the books: No fiction winner

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, is the fact that no novel was judged worthy of the $10,000 prize. It’s the first time since 1977 that has happened and the 11th time since Columbia University began the prestigious awards in 1917.

Don’t blame the three-person fiction jury: novelistMichael Cunningham and critics Maureen Corrigan andSusan Larson.

After reading 341 books, they nominated three titles to the 18 voting members of the Pulitzer board, which “could not determine a winner,” says Pulitzer Prizeadministrator Sig Gissler, who sits on the board. Its members include prominent journalists such as TheNew York Times‘ Thomas Friedman. Its only fiction writer is novelist Junot Diaz.

“None of the three books could get a majority of votes,” Gissler says.

Fiction jury’s nominees:

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, a novella set in the old American West.

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, a debut novel set in the Florida Everglades about a failing theme park.

The Pale King by the late David Foster Wallace. Published after the author’s 2008 suicide, the novel is set in an IRS office.

Other category winners:

History: The late Manning Marable for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. The author, a Columbia University professor who had worked more than a decade on the biography, died of pneumonia last April, three days before the book was published.

Biography: John Lewis Gaddis for George F. Kennan: An American Life. An American diplomat, Kennan was a pivotal figure during the Cold War who advocated the policy of containing the Soviet Union.

Non-fiction: Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,which tells the story of a 15th-century book hunter who rescued classical manuscripts and influenced history. It previously had won the 2011 National Book Award for non-fiction.

Drama:Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes, a play about a returning Iraq veteran in Philadelphia.

Poetry:Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith.

Music:Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts by Kevin Puts, commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis.

2011普利策奖揭晓

4月18日星期一,2011年各项普利策奖评奖结果揭晓。

《纽约时报》(The New York Times)获得了普利策经济评论奖和有关俄罗斯的新闻报道奖;《洛杉矶时报》(The Los Angeles Times)获得了普利策公众服务奖和摄影配图奖。

这次由哥伦比亚大学主持评审的普利策奖获奖者范围较广,而不像前两年那样都集中在一两家报纸或者出版社上。

这次还破天荒地颁奖给了一个没有正是出版发行的一份新闻报道: ProPublica’s series “The Wall Street Money Machine” .

此外,《华尔街论丛》( The Wall Street Journal)自2007年被默多克(Rupert Murdoch)收购以来首获大奖:约瑟夫·雷戈( Joseph Rago)获普利策编辑奖。

供职《华盛顿邮报》的卡萝尔·古琦(Carol Guzy)再获普利策摄影奖。她成了第一位四获普利策奖的新闻工作者。这次她和尼基·卡恩(Nikki Kahn)以及里奇·卡里奥蒂(Ricky Carioti)一起分享了今年的普利策摄影奖。

普利策奖包括13个新闻类奖项以及7个艺术类奖项。

今年的7个艺术类获奖者分别是:
普利策小说奖颁给了珍妮弗·艾根(Jennifer Egan)的 “A Visit From The Goon Squad”;
布鲁斯·诺里斯(Bruce Norris)的戏剧 “Clybourne Park” 获得了普利策戏剧奖;
普利策历史奖颁给了诶里克·冯纳(Eric Foner)的 “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery”;
荣·切尔诺(Ron Chernow)的 “Washington: A Life”获得了普利策传记奖;
周龙(音译)的《白娘子》(“Madame White Snake”)获普利策音乐奖。
普利策诗歌奖颁给了凯伊·瑞恩(Kay Ryan)的“The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”;
普利策非虚构类奖颁给了希德哈尔塞·穆克赫尔吉(Siddhartha Mukherjee)的 “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”;

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