Elizabeth Strout Wins Fiction Category at 2009 Pulitzer Prizes

Posted on April 23, 2009

The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Elizabeth Strout was the winner in fiction for her novel, Olive Kitteridge. She has published several books with Random House. You can find her author page here.

Here's the list of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners in Letters, Drama, and Music. Each winner received a $10,000 prize.

Fiction: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography or Autobiography: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Music: Double Sextet by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes)

You can find the finalists in each category on the Pulitzer Prizes 2009 awards page.