EMERSON AND BROOKS WIN PULITZER PRIZES

[courtesy of Poets & Writers]

EMERSON AND BROOKS WIN PULITZER PRIZES
Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press). Also nominated were Elizabeth Alexander for American Sublime (Graywolf Press) and Dean Young for Elegy on Toy Piano (University of Pittsburgh Press).
The winner in the fiction category is Geraldine Brooks for her novel March (Viking). Also nominated were E.L. Doctorow for The March (Random House) and Lee Martin for The Bright Forever (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing).
Emerson and Brooks will each receive $10,000.

Past winners of the Pulitzer Prizes
2005 Poetry: Ted Kooser for Delights & Shadows (Copper Cayon Press) 2005 Fiction: Marilynne Robinson for Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2004 Poetry: Franz Wright for Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Alfred A. Knopf) 2004 Fiction: Edward P. Jones for The Known World (Amistad/HarperCollins)
2003 Poetry: Paul Muldoon for Moy Sand and Gravel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)2003 Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides for Middlesex (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2002 Poetry: Carl Dennis for Practical Gods (Penguin) 2002 Fiction: Richard Russo for Empire Falls (Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 Poetry: Stephen Dunn for Different Hours (W.W. Norton) 2001 Fiction: Michael Chabon for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random House)
2000 Poetry: C.K. Williams for Repair (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2000 Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)