Pulitzer judges called Erdrich’s novel “a majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination”. It’s something indigenous people also know about well. “I love this city and it hurts to know how deep the racism goes. She called the Pulitzer a welcome contrast to the news of the past year.
It is very moving, this is very moving recognition,” said Erdrich, who runs an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed in May 2020. “This story belongs to him and to the Turtle Mountain people. The drama award, which includes a $15,000 US prize, is "for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.From left, The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, The Dead Are Arising co-authored by Tamara Payne and her father Les Payne, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall, a play set around a hot wing cooking competition, won the prize for drama during a theater season that saw most venues largely shuttered. The judges commended it for being "a musical journey full of surprise, with powerful brass and rhythmic motifs that incorporate Black music traditions from the U.S., and the Caribbean into a Western orchestral fabric." Tania León's composition Stride won for music. Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem was the poetry winner and David Zucchino's Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy was cited for general nonfiction. Marcia Chatelain's Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America won for history. Manning Marable, whose Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention won for history in 2012, died shortly before publication.
It's also the second Malcolm X biography to win a Pulitzer for an author who didn't live to see his book released.
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