56 books that received the Pulitzer Prize

Exactly one hundred years the Pulitzer Prize awarded for the best art books of American writers. Layfhaker publishes a list of the works published in Russian, which should add to your reading list.

Pulitzer Prize - a prestigious award for journalists, writers, playwrights, photographers and composers.

One of the categories is awarded for "the best work of fiction, a writer belonging to Americans, published in book form, and preferably dedicated to the problems of American life."

However, most writers laureates are known not only in the United States. Their works are published around the world and are considered classics. For example, "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "The Grapes of Wrath," Steinbeck.

Below - the list of works published in Russian, which certainly deserve attention.

2010s

• 2016: "sympathy", Viet Tan Nguyen.
• 2015: "all the light we can not see," Anthony Doerr (buy Litres →).
• 2014: "Goldfinch" Donna Tartt (buy Litres →).
• 2013: "The Orphan Master's Son", Adam Johnson (buy Litres →).
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• 2011: The "Time laughs last," Jennifer Egan (buy Labirint →).
• 2010: The "Placer" Paul Harding.

2000s

• 2009: The "Olivia Kitteridzh" Elizabeth Strout (buy Litres →).
• 2008: The "Short Life of Oscar Wow fantastic" Juno Diaz (buy Litres →).
• 2007: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (buy Litres →).
• 2006: The "March," Geraldine Brooks.
• 2005: The "Gilead," Marilyn Robinson (buy Litres →).
• 2004: The "come to know the world," Edward Jones.
• 2003 "Middlesex," Jeffrey Eugenides.
• 2002: "The Fall of the Empire", by Richard Russo.
• 2001: "The Incredible Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.

1990

• 1999: The "Hours" by Michael Cunningham.
• 1998: The "American Pastoral" Philip Roth.
• 1997: The "Martin Dressler," Steven Millhauser.
• 1996: The "Independence Day", Richard Ford (buy Litres →).
• 1995: The "Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields.
• 1994: "The Shipping News," Annie Proulx.
• 1992: "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley.
• 1991: The "Rabbit calmed down," John Updike.

1980

• 1989: The "Breathing Lessons," Anne Tyler (buy Litres →).
• 1988: "Beloved" by Toni Morrison (buy Litres →).
• 1986 "Lonesome Dove" by Larry Makmortri.
• 1985: The "Foreign relations", Alison Lurie.
• 1984: The "Iron weeds," William Kennedy.
• 1983, "The Color Purple," Alice Walker.
• 1982 "Rabbit Is Rich" by John Updike.
• 1980, "The Executioner's Song," Norman Mailer.

1970

• 1979: The stories of John Cheever.
• 1976 "The gift of Humboldt," Saul Bellow.
• 1973: "The daughter of an optimist," Eudora Welty.

1960

• 1969: "The House of the created dawn," Scott Momadey.
• 1968: The "Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron (buy Litres →).
• 1967: A "Master", Bernard Malamud.
• 1966 stories, Katherine Anne Porter.
• 1965: "keepers of the house," Shirley Ann Grau.
• 1963: The "kidnappers", William Faulkner.
• 1961: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (buy Litres →).

1950

• 1955: "Parable" by William Faulkner.
• 1953 "The Old Man and the Sea", Ernest Hemingway (buy Litres →).
• 1952: "Rebellion to" Kane "," Herman Wouk.

1940

• 1949: "A guard of honor", James Gould Kozzens.
• 1948: "Tales of the South Pacific," James A. Michener.
• 1947: "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren (buy Litres →).
• 1943: The "dragon's teeth" Bill Upton Sinclair.
• 1942: "This is our life," Ellen Glasgow.
• 1940: The "Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (buy Litres →).

1930

• 1937: "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (buy Litres →).
• 1932: "Earth," Pearl Buck.
• 1931: "Years of Solace", Margaret Ayer Barnes.

1920

• 1928: "Bridge of St. Louis," Thornton Wilder.
• 1921: "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton (buy Litres →).

1910

• 1919: "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington.