by Jeroslyn JoVonn
Could 6, 2025
Percival Everett’s honors for his acclaimed novel proceed
Percival Everett’s 2024 novel James continues to earn widespread acclaim. After being named a Booker Prize finalist and successful each the Kirkus Prize and the Nationwide E-book Award for Fiction, Everett has added the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
The Distinguished Professor of English on the College of Southern California was introduced as a Pulitzer Prize winner on Could 5. Everett’s highly effective novel, James, serves as a reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informed by way of the eyes of Jim, Huck’s enslaved companion.
The Pulitzer Prize stands as a defining second in Everett’s stellar literary profession, which additionally consists of his novel Erasure (2001), which impressed the Academy Award-winning movie American Fiction. His different works embody I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Bushes (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.
The celebrated Pulitzer Prize acknowledges excellence in journalism, literature, drama, and music. The 2025 winners had been honored at a ceremony opened by Administrator Marjorie Miller, who began the occasion by addressing the continued challenges going through the media and publishing industries in america.
“ Atop years of extreme monetary pressures and layoffs, amid the hazards of overlaying wars and pure disasters, journalists and writers now face extra threats within the type of authorized harassment, the banning of books, and assaults on their work and legitimacy. These efforts are supposed to silence, criticism, to edit or rewrite historical past,” Miller stated.
She added that this yr’s finalists and winners entailed “ brave reporting and impactful storytelling” in addition to “ authors and composers who arise for his or her values.”
Anoher notable Pulitzer Prize winners this yr was Ann Telnaes, the previous Washington Put up cartoonist who resigned earlier after her editor declined to publish a satirical cartoon that mocked media and tech leaders’ allegiance to President Donald Trump.
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