Here Are the Winning Books of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes
A special citation was awarded to Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd's murder.
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The winners and finalists of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on June 11, honoring the best in American journalism and Arts and Letters. In the book categories, Louise Erdrich won the Fiction award for her novel The Night Watchman; Natalie Diaz won in Poetry for Post Colonial Love Poem; Marcia Chatelain won the History award for Franchise; Lee Payne and Tamara Payne took home the Biography medal for The Dead Are Arising; and David Zucchino won in General Nonfiction for Wilmington's Lie.
In addition to the awards for books, music, and journalism, the board awarded a special citation to Darnella Fraizer, the teenage witness in the Derek Chauvin murder trial who filmed and posted, in the words of Mindy Marqués, the co-chair of the Pulitzer board, "the transformative video that jolted viewers and spurred protests against police brutality around the world."
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