Pulitzerprisen for skjønnlitteratur

Pulitzerprisen for skjønnlitteratur er en amerikansk litteraturpris og en av Pulitzerprisenes kategorier som er blitt delt ut siden 1918 for framstående romaner skrevet av en amerikansk forfattere, som fortrinnsvis behandler det amerikanske livet.

Fra 1918 til 1947 het denne prisen Pulitzerprisen for romankunst («Pulitzer Prize for the Novel»).^[1]

Prisvinnere[rediger | rediger kilde]

År	Vinner/ finalist	Tittel	Forfatter
1918		Hans familie	Ernest Poole
1919		The Magnificent Ambersons	Booth Tarkington
1920		Ingen pris ble utdelt
1921		The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton
1922		Alice Adams	Booth Tarkington
1923		One of Ours	Willa Cather
1924		The Able McLaughlins	Margaret Wilson
1925		So Big	Edna Ferber
1926		Arrowsmith	Sinclair Lewis (avslo prisen)
1927		Early Autumn	Louis Bromfield
1928		The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Thornton Wilder
1929		Scarlet Sister Mary	Julia Peterkin
1930		Laughing Boy	Oliver La Farge
1931		Years of Grace	Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932		The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck
1933		The Store	Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1934		Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller
1935		Now in November	Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936		Honey in the Horn	Harold L. Davis
1937		Tatt av vinden	Margaret Mitchell
1938		The Late George Apley	John Phillips Marquand
1939		The Yearling	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940		Vredens druer	John Steinbeck
1941		Ingen pris ble utdelt^[2]
1942		In This Our Life	Ellen Glasgow
1943		Dragon's Teeth	Upton Sinclair
1944		Journey in the Dark	Martin Flavin
1945		A Bell for Adano	John Hersey
1946		Ingen pris ble utdelt
1947		All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren
1948		Tales of the South Pacific	James Michener
1949		Guard of Honor	James Gould Cozzens
1950		The Way West	A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951		The Town	Conrad Richter
1952		The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk
1953		Den gamle mannen og havet	Ernest Hemingway
1954		Ble ikke utdelt dette året
1955		A Fable	William Faulkner
1956		Andersonville	MacKinlay Kantor
1957		Ble ikke utdelt dette året
1958		A Death in the Family	James Agee
1959		The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Robert Lewis Taylor
1960		Advise and Consent	Allen Drury
1961		Drep ikke en sangfugl	Harper Lee
1962		The Edge of Sadness	Edwin O'Connor
1963		The Reivers	William Faulkner
1964		Ble ikke utdelt dette året
1965		The Keepers of the House	Shirley Ann Grau
1966		The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	Katherine Anne Porter
1967		The Fixer	Bernard Malamud
1968		The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron
1969		House Made of Dawn	N. Scott Momaday
1970		The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford	Jean Stafford
1971		Ble ikke utdelt dette året
1972		Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner
1973		The Optimist's Daughter	Eudora Welty
1974		Ingen pris ble utdelt dette året
1975		The Killer Angels	Michael Shaara
1976		Humboldt's Gift	Saul Bellow
1977		Ingen pris ble utdelt dette året
1978		Elbow Room	James Alan McPherson
1979		The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever
1980	Vinner	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer
	Finalist	Birdy	William Wharton
	Finalist	The Ghost Writer	Philip Roth
1981	Vinner	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole (posthumt)
	Finalist	Godric	Frederick Buechner
	Finalist	So Long, See You Tomorrow	William Maxwell
1982	Vinner	Rabbit Is Rich	John Updike
	Finalist	A Flag for Sunrise	Robert Stone
	Finalist	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson
1983	Vinner	The Color Purple	Alice Walker
	Finalist	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Anne Tyler
	Finalist	Rabbis and Wives	Chaim Grade
1984	Vinner	Ironweed	William Kennedy
	Finalist	Cathedral	Raymond Carver
	Finalist	The Feud	Thomas Berger
1985	Vinner	Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie
	Finalist	I Wish This War Were Over	Diana O'Hehir
	Finalist	Leaving the Land	Douglas Unger
1986	Vinner	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry
	Finalist	The Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler
	Finalist	Continental Drift	Russell Banks
1987	Vinner	A Summons to Memphis	Peter Taylor
	Finalist	Paradise	Donald Barthelme
	Finalist	Whites	Norman Rush
1988	Vinner	Elskede	Toni Morrison
	Finalist	Persian Nights	Diane Johnson
	Finalist	That Night	Alice McDermott
1989	Vinner	Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler
1989	Finalist	Where I'm Calling From	Raymond Carver
1990		The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	Oscar Hijuelos
1991		Rabbit At Rest	John Updike
1992		A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley
1993		A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	Robert Olen Butler
1994		The Shipping News	Annie Proulx
1995		The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields
1996		Independence Day	Richard Ford
1997		Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer	Steven Millhauser
1998		American Pastoral	Philip Roth
1999		The Hours	Michael Cunningham
2000		Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
2001		The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon
2002		Empire Falls	Richard Russo
2003		Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides
2004		The Known World	Edward P. Jones
2005		Gilead	Marilynne Robinson
2006		March	Geraldine Brooks
2007		Veien	Cormac McCarthy
2008	Vinner	Oscar Waos korte, makeløse liv	Junot Díaz
	Finalist	Shakespeare's Kitchen	Lore Segal
	Finalist	Tree of Smoke	Denis Johnson
2009	Vinner	Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout
	Finalist	All Souls	Christine Schutt
	Finalist	The Plague of Doves	Louise Erdrich
2010	Vinner	Tinkers	Paul Harding
	Finalist	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders	Daniyal Mueenuddin
	Finalist	Love in Infant Monkeys	Lydia Millet
2011	Vinner	A Visit From the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan
	Finalist	The Privileges	Jonathan Dee
	Finalist	The Surrendered	Chang-rae Lee
2012	Ikke utdelt
	Finalist	Train Dreams	Denis Johnson
	Finalist	Swamplandia!	Karen Russell
	Finalist	The Pale King	David Foster Wallace
2013	Vinner	The Orphan Master's Son	Adam Johnson
	Finalist	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank	Nathan Englander
	Finalist	The Snow Child	Eowyn Ivey
2014	Vinner	The Goldfinch	Donna Tartt
	Finalist	The Son	Philipp Meyer
	Finalist	The Woman Who Lost Her Soul	Bob Schacochis
2015	Vinner	All The Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
	Finalist	Let Me Be Frank With You	Richard Ford
	Finalist	Lovely, Dark, Deep	Joyce Carol Oates
	Finalist	The Moor's Account	Laila Lamani
2016	Vinner	The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen
	Finalist	Get in Trouble: Stories	Kelly Link
	Finalist	Maud's Line	Margaret Verble
2017	Vinner	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
	Finalist	Imagine Me Gone	Adam Haslett
	Finalist	The Sport of Kings	C. E. Morgan
2018	Vinner	Less	Andrew Sean Greer
	Finalist	In the Distance	Hernan Diaz
	Finalist	The Idiot	Elif Batuman
2019	Vinner	The Overstory	Richard Powers
	Finalist	The Great Believers	Rebecca Makkai
	Finalist	There There	Tommy Orange
2020	Vinner	The Nickel Boys	Colson Whitehead
	Finalist	The Dutch House	Ann Patchett
	Finalist	The Topeka School	Ben Lerner
2021	Vinner	The Night Watchman	Louise Erdrich
	Finalist	A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth	Daniel Mason
	Finalist	Telephone	Percival Everett
2022	Vinner	The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family	Joshua Cohen
	Finalist	Monkey Boy	Francisco Goldman
	Finalist	Palmares	Gayl Jones
2023	Vinnere	TrustDemon Copperhead	Hernon Diaz Barbara Kingsolver
	Finalist	The Immortal King Rao	Vauhini Vara

Referanser[rediger | rediger kilde]

^ «Categories : Current | Past». www.pulitzer.org (engelsk). The Pulitzer Prizes. Besøkt 4. juni 2021.
^ Juryen for prisen i denne kategorien hadde anbefalt at prisen skulle deles ut til Ernest Hemingways For Whom the Bell Tolls i 1941. Selv om styret for Pulitzer opprinnelig var enig i dette, overtalte presidenten ved Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, styret til å reversere valget fordi han mente at romanen var krenkende, og ingen pris ble utdelt dette året. McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies." New York Times 11. mai 1984: C26.

[1] «Categories : Current | Past». www.pulitzer.org (engelsk). The Pulitzer Prizes. Besøkt 4. juni 2021.

[2] Juryen for prisen i denne kategorien hadde anbefalt at prisen skulle deles ut til Ernest Hemingways For Whom the Bell Tolls i 1941. Selv om styret for Pulitzer opprinnelig var enig i dette, overtalte presidenten ved Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, styret til å reversere valget fordi han mente at romanen var krenkende, og ingen pris ble utdelt dette året. McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies." New York Times 11. mai 1984: C26.

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