Pulitzer Prize - Fiction (Awarded by Columbia University)

Awards List

2023

Trust
(Winner)
Hernan Diaz

Demon Copperhead
(Winner)
Barbara Kingsolver

The Immortal King Rao
(Finalist)
Vauhini Vara

2022

The Netanyahus
(Winner)
Joshua Cohen

Monkey Boy
(Finalist)
Francisco Goldman

Palmares
(Finalist)
Gayl Jones

2021

The Night Watchman
(Winner)
Louise Erdrich

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories
(Finalist)
Daniel Mason

Telephone
(Finalist)
Percival Everett

2020

The Nickel Boys
(Winner)
Colson Whitehead

The Dutch House
(Finalist)
Ann Patchett

The Topeka School
(Finalist)
Ben Lerner

2019

The Overstory
(Winner)
Richard Powers

The Great Believers
(Finalist)
Rebecca Makkai

There There
(Finalist)
Tommy Orange

2018

Less
(Winner)
Andrew Sean Greer

The Idiot
(Finalist)
Elif Batuman

In the Distance
(Finalist)
Hernan Diaz

2017

The Underground Railroad
(Winner)
Colson Whitehead

Imagine Me Gone
(Finalist)
Adam Haslett

The Sport of Kings
(Finalist)
C.E. Morgan

2016

The Sympathizer
(Winner)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Get in Trouble
(Finalist)
Kelly Link

Maud's Line
(Finalist)
Margaret Verble

2015

All the Light We Cannot See
(Winner)
Anthony Doerr

Lovely, Dark, Deep
(Finalist)
Joyce Carol Oates

The Moor's Account
(Finalist)
Laila Lalami

Let Me Be Frank with You
(Finalist)
Richard Ford

2014

The Goldfinch
(Winner)
Donna Tartt

The Son
(Finalist)
Philipp Meyer

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
(Finalist)
Bob Shacochis

2013

The Orphan Master's Son
(Winner)
Adam Johnson

The Snow Child
(Finalist)
Eowyn Ivey

2012

Swamplandia!
(Finalist)
Karen Russell

Train Dreams
(Finalist)
Denis Johnson

2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad
(Winner)
Jennifer Egan

2010

Tinkers
(Winner)
Paul Harding

2009

Olive Kitteridge
(Winner)
Elizabeth Strout

Tinkers
(Winner)
Paul Harding

2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(Winner)
Junot Diaz

2007

The Road
(Winner)
Cormac McCarthy

2006

March
(Winner)
Geraldine Brooks

2005

Gilead
(Winner)
Marilynne Robinson

2004

The Known World
(Winner)
Edward P. Jones

Gilead
(Winner)
Marilynne Robinson

2003

Middlesex
(Winner)
Jeffrey Eugenides

2002

Empire Falls
(Winner)
Richard Russo

Middlesex
(Winner)
Jeffrey Eugenides

2001

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
(Winner)
Michael Chabon

2000

Interpreter of Maladies
(Winner)
Jhumpa Lahiri

1999

The Hours
(Winner)
Michael Cunningham

1998

American Pastoral
(Winner)
Philip Roth

1997

Martin Dressler
(Winner)
Steven Millhauser

1996

Independence Day
(Winner)
Richard Ford

Martin Dressler
(Winner)
Steven Millhauser

1995

The Stone Diaries
(Winner)
Carol Shields

1994

The Shipping News
(Winner)
Annie Proulx

1993

Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
(Winner)
Robert Olen Butler

1992

A Thousand Acres
(Winner)
Jane Smiley

1991

Rabbit At Rest
(Winner)
John Updike

A Thousand Acres
(Winner)
Jane Smiley

1990

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
(Winner)
Oscar Hijuelos

1989

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
(Winner)
Oscar Hijuelos

1988

Beloved
(Winner)
Toni Morrison
  • / Historical Romance
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Breathing Lessons
(Winner)
Anne Tyler

1987

A Summons to Memphis
(Winner)
Peter Taylor

1986

Lonesome Dove
(Winner)
Larry McMurtry

1985

Lonesome Dove
(Winner)
Larry McMurtry

1984

Ironweed
(Winner)
William Kennedy

Foreign Affairs
(Winner)
Alison Lurie

1982

Rabbit Is Rich
(Winner)
John Updike

The Color Purple
(Winner)
Alice Walker

1981

A Confederacy of Dunces
(Winner)
John Kenned Toole Jr.

1980

A Confederacy of Dunces
(Winner)
John Kenned Toole Jr.

1979

The Executioner's Song
(Winner)
Norman Mailer
  • / General Fiction
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1978

The Stories of John Cheever
(Winner)
John Cheever

1977

Elbow Room
(Winner)
James Alan McPherson

1976

Humboldt's Gift
(Winner)
Saul Bellow

1975

The Killer Angels
(Winner)
Michael Shaara

1973

The Optimist's Daughter
(Winner)
Eudora Welty
  • / General Fiction
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1972

Angle of Repose
(Winner)
Wallace Stegner
  • / General Fiction
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1971

Angle of Repose
(Winner)
Wallace Stegner
  • / General Fiction
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1970

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
(Winner)
Jean Stafford

1969

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
(Winner)
Jean Stafford

1968

Confessions of Nat Turner
(Winner)
William Styron

House Made of Dawn
(Winner)
N. Scott Momaday
  • / General Fiction
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1967

The Fixer
(Winner)
Bernard Malamud
  • / General Fiction
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1966

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
(Winner)
Katherine Anne Porter
  • / General Fiction
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1965

The Keepers of the House
(Winner)
Shirley Ann Grau

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
(Winner)
Katherine Anne Porter
  • / General Fiction
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1962

Reivers
(Winner)
William Faulkner

1961

The Edge of Sadness
(Winner)
Edwin O'Connor

1960

To Kill a Mockingbird
(Winner)
Harper Lee

1959

Advise and Consent
(Winner)
Allen Drury

1958

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
(Winner)
Robert Lewis Taylor

1957

Death in the Family
(Winner)
James Agee
  • / General Fiction
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1955

Andersonville
(Winner)
Mackinlay Kantor

1954

A Fable
(Winner)
William Faulkner
  • / General Fiction
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1952

Old Man And The Sea
(Winner)
Ernest Hemingway
  • / General Fiction
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1951

The Caine Mutiny
(Winner)
Herman Wouk

1950

The Town
(Winner)
Conrad Richter
  • / General Fiction
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1949

The Way West
(Winner)
A.B. Guthrie Jr.

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