Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded annually for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Administered by Colu…

Open to American authors. The three-person jury recommends nominees; the final winner is chosen by the Pulitzer Prize Board.

2024

• Night watch — winner

2023

• Demon Copperhead — winner

2021

• The Night Watchman — winner

2019

• The Overstory — winner

2018

• Less — winner

2017

• The Underground Railroad — winner

2016

• The Sympathizer — winner

2015

• All the Light We Cannot See — winner

2014

• The Goldfinch — winner

2013

• The Orphan Master's Son — winner

2011

• A Visit from the Goon Squad — winner

2010

• Tinkers — winner

2009

• Olive Kitteridge — winner

2008

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — winner

2007

• The Road — winner

2006

• March — winner

2005

• Gilead — winner

2004

• The Known World — winner

2003

• Middlesex — winner

2002

• Empire Falls — winner

2000

• Interpreter of Maladies — winner

1999

• The hours — winner

1998

• American Pastoral — winner

1997

• Martin Dressler — winner

1996

• Independence Day — winner

1995

• The Stone Diaries — winner

1993

• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain — winner

1992

• A Thousand Acres — winner

1991

• Rabbit at Rest — winner

1990

• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — winner

1989

• Breathing Lessons — winner

1988

• Beloved — winner

1986

• Lonesome Dove — winner

1985

• Foreign Affairs — winner

1984

• Ironweed — winner

1983

• The Color Purple — winner

1982

• Rabbit Is Rich — winner

1981

• A Confederacy of Dunces — winner

1980

• The Executioner's Song — winner

1978

• The Stories of John Cheever — winner

1977

• Elbow Room — winner

1975

• Humboldt's Gift — winner

1974

• The Killer Angels — winner

1972

• The Optimist's Daughter — winner

1971

• Angle of Repose — winner

1968

• House Made of Dawn — winner

1966

• The Fixer — winner

1964

• The Keepers of the House — winner

1962

• The Reivers — winner

1961

• The Edge of Sadness — winner

1960

• To Kill a Mockingbird — winner

1959

• advise and consent — winner

1958

• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters — winner

1957

• A Death in the Family — winner

1955

• Andersonville — winner

1954

• A Fable — winner

1952

• The Old Man and the Sea — winner

1950

• The Town — winner