NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize officials announced the annual winners, awarding the fiction prize to Daniel Kraus for "Angel Down," a World War I narrative told in one long sentence, and the drama prize to Bess Wohl's "Liberation," a play that looks back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s. The drama award was announced one day before the Tony Award nominations.
Pulitzer officials praised "Angel Down" as "a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence." Kraus, 50, has had a career that includes collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro.
Wohl's play features second-wave feminists from various backgrounds tackling misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles, and navigates between past and present. Six of the actors disrobe for the act two opening scene.
In other categories, Jill Lepore's "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" won the Pulitzer Prize for history, and Amanda Vaill's "Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution" won the prize for biography.
Yiyun Li's "Things in Nature Merely Grow," which recounts the suicides of her two sons, won the Pulitzer Prize for memoir-autobiography. Brian Goldstone's "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" won the prize for general nonfiction.
Juliana Spahr's "Ars Poeticas" won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Gabriela Lena Frank won the prize for music for "Picaflor: A Future Myth," a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.
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