The Pulitzer jury named Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer this year’s winner in the fiction category.
Here are this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists with bonus links:
Fiction:
- Winner: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Nguyen’s Year in Reading 2015)
- Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link (Memory is a Mysterious Machine: The Millions Interviews Kelly Link)
- Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble
General Nonfiction:
- Winner: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
History:
- Winner: Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
- Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan
- Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott
Biography or Autobiography:
- Winner: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
- The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
Poetry:
- Winner: Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
- Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis
- Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer Web site.