Feminism play Liberation is the first world war book Angel Down among Pulitzer winners | Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize The authorities awarded the fiction prize to a historical writer in fantasy, horror and young adult literature: Daniel Kraus, named Angel Downthe story of the first world war that takes place in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist movements of the 1970s, won an award for drama.

The winners announced on Monday included two books based on the US establishment. Biography of Jill Lepore We the People: A History of the US Constitution won history, and Amanda Vaill’s Pride and Joy: The Schuyler Sisters in the Age of Revolution was the winner.

Yiyun Li Natural Resources just keep getting biggerhis candid story about the suicide of his two sons, was mentioned in an autobiography. Brian Goldstone’s No Place For Us: Working With America’s Homeless won the award for fiction.

The poetry award went to Juliana Spahr’s Ars Poeticas, and the music award went to Gabriela Lena Frank for Picaflor: A Future Myth, a symphonic work inspired by the myth of the Andes and California fires.

The 50-year-old Kraus has had a varied and prolific career that includes collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro. Pulitzer Prize officials praised Angel Down as “a stylistic-de-force that combines the genres of fantasy, fantasy and science fiction into a coherent, coherent narrative”.

Wohl’s memoir brings together feminists from all walks of life as they struggle against misogyny, homophobia, domestic violence and gender roles. The play moves between the past and the present, and six of the actors leave for the opening two scenes. The win comes a day before the Tony Awards, where Liberation is expected to be named in the best feature film category.

The Guardian’s Adrian Horton thanks Released in a four-star review.

“The play offers no clear answers; politics and personal choices remain, as ever, controversial,” he wrote. “Liberation finds, in this case, an irrevocable and powerful sorrow – for our mistakes, for all that has been lost, for the questions that we think too late to ask.”