Junot Díaz has been announced as the winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Other category winners are:
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History: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Daniel Walker Howe, OUP)
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Biography: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (John Matteson, W W Norton)
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Poetry: Time and Materials (Robert Hass, HarperCollins) and Failure (Philip Schultz, Harcourt US)
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General Non-fiction: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Saul Friedlander, Orion)
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Tracy Letts won the drama prize for August: Osage County
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Bob Dylan was given a special citation in music.
The Pulitzer awards each carry a prize of US$10,000 (A$10,500).
