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The '''[[Pulitzer Prize]] for Fiction''' has been awarded since [[1948]] for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the [[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel]].

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* '''[[1948 in literature|1948]]:''' ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'' by [[James A. Michener]]

* '''[[1949 in literature|1949]]:''' ''[[Guard of Honor]]'' by [[James Gould Cozzens]]

* '''[[1950 in literature|1950]]:''' ''[[The Way West]]'' by [[A. B. Guthrie, Jr.]]

* '''[[1951 in literature|1951]]:''' ''[[The Town]]'' by [[Conrad Richter]]

* '''[[1952 in literature|1952]]:''' ''[[The Caine Mutiny]]'' by [[Herman Wouk]]

* '''[[1953 in literature|1953]]:''' ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]

* '''[[1954 in literature|1954]]:''' no award given

* '''[[1955 in literature|1955]]:''' ''[[A Fable]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]

* '''[[1956 in literature|1956]]:''' ''[[Andersonville (novel)|Andersonville]]'' by [[MacKinlay Kantor]]

* '''[[1957 in literature|1957]]:''' no award given

* '''[[1958 in literature|1958]]:''' ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' by [[James Agee]]

* '''[[1959 in literature|1959]]:''' ''[[The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters]]'' by [[Robert Lewis Taylor]]

* '''[[1960 in literature|1960]]:''' ''[[Advise and Consent]]'' by [[Allen Drury]]

* '''[[1961 in literature|1961]]:''' ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' by [[Harper Lee]]

* '''[[1962 in literature|1962]]:''' ''[[The Edge of Sadness]]'' by [[Edwin O'Connor]]

* '''[[1963 in literature|1963]]:''' ''[[The Reivers]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]

* '''[[1964 in literature|1964]]:''' no award given

* '''[[1965 in literature|1965]]:''' ''[[The Keepers of the House]]'' by [[Shirley Ann Grau]]

* '''[[1966 in literature|1966]]:''' ''[[Collected Stories]]'' by [[Katherine Anne Porter]]

* '''[[1967 in literature|1967]]:''' ''[[The Fixer]]'' by [[Bernard Malamud]]

* '''[[1968 in literature|1968]]:''' ''[[The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)|The Confessions of Nat Turner]]'' by [[William Styron]]

* '''[[1969 in literature|1969]]:''' ''[[House Made of Dawn]]'' by [[N. Scott Momaday]]

* '''[[1970 in literature|1970]]:''' ''[[Collected Stories]]'' by [[Jean Stafford]]

* '''[[1971 in literature|1971]]:''' no award given

* '''[[1972 in literature|1972]]:''' ''[[Angle of Repose]]'' by [[Wallace Stegner]]

* '''[[1973 in literature|1973]]:''' ''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]'' by [[Eudora Welty]]

* '''[[1974 in literature|1974]]:''' no award given ¹

* '''[[1975 in literature|1975]]:''' ''[[The Killer Angels]]'' by [[Michael Shaara]]

* '''[[1976 in literature|1976]]:''' ''[[Humboldt's Gift]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]

* '''[[1977 in literature|1977]]:''' no award given

* '''[[1978 in literature|1978]]:''' ''[[Elbow Room (short story collection)|Elbow Room]]'' by [[James Alan McPherson]]

* '''[[1979 in literature|1979]]:''' ''[[The Stories of John Cheever]]'' by [[John Cheever]]

* '''[[1980 in literature|1980]]:''' ''[[The Executioner's Song]]'' by [[Norman Mailer]]

* '''[[1981 in literature|1981]]:''' ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by [[John Kennedy Toole]]

* '''[[1982 in literature|1982]]:''' ''[[Rabbit Is Rich]]'' by [[John Updike]]

* '''[[1983 in literature|1983]]:''' ''[[The Color Purple]]'' by [[Alice Walker]]

* '''[[1984 in literature|1984]]:''' ''[[Ironweed]]'' by [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]]

* '''[[1985 in literature|1985]]:''' ''[[Foreign Affairs (novel)|Foreign Affairs]]'' by [[Alison Lurie]]

* '''[[1986 in literature|1986]]:''' ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'' by [[Larry McMurtry]]

* '''[[1987 in literature|1987]]:''' ''[[A Summons to Memphis]]'' by [[Peter Taylor (author)|Peter Taylor]]

* '''[[1988 in literature|1988]]:''' ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' by [[Toni Morrison]]

* '''[[1989 in literature|1989]]:''' ''[[Breathing Lessons]]'' by [[Anne Tyler]]

* '''[[1990 in literature|1990]]:''' ''[[The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love]]'' by [[Oscar Hijuelos]]

* '''[[1991 in literature|1991]]:''' ''[[Rabbit At Rest]]'' by [[John Updike]]

* '''[[1992 in literature|1992]]:''' ''[[A Thousand Acres]]'' by [[Jane Smiley]]

* '''[[1993 in literature|1993]]:''' ''[[A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain]]'' by [[Robert Olen Butler]]

* '''[[1994 in literature|1994]]:''' ''[[The Shipping News]]'' by [[E. Annie Proulx]]

* '''[[1995 in literature|1995]]:''' ''[[The Stone Diaries]]'' by [[Carol Shields]]

* '''[[1996 in literature|1996]]:''' ''[[Independence Day (novel)|Independence Day]]'' by [[Richard Ford]]

* '''[[1997 in literature|1997]]:''' ''[[Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer]]'' by [[Steven Millhauser]]

* '''[[1998 in literature|1998]]:''' ''[[American Pastoral]]'' by [[Philip Roth]]

* '''[[1999 in literature|1999]]:''' ''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]'' by [[Michael Cunningham]]

* '''[[2000 in literature|2000]]:''' ''[[Interpreter of Maladies]]'' by [[Jhumpa Lahiri]]

* '''[[2001 in literature|2001]]:''' ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]'' by [[Michael Chabon]]

* '''[[2002 in literature|2002]]:''' ''[[Empire Falls]]'' by [[Richard Russo]]

* '''[[2003 in literature|2003]]:''' ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'' by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]

* '''[[2004 in literature|2004]]:''' ''[[The Known World]]'' by [[Edward P. Jones]]

* '''[[2005 in literature|2005]]:''' ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' by [[Marilynne Robinson]]

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Arrested on 9 June 1941 for resistance activities, he spent the rest of World War II in German custody, first in the “Oranjehotel,” '''a prison set up by the Germans''', after which he was deported to Buchenwald via the Nazi transit camp Amersfoort. </blockquote>

The fiction jury had unanimously recommended the 1974 award to [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'', but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.

I disagree with the modification" a prison set up by the Germans" which was added to the sentence.

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At the start of WWII The Dutch turned it into a prison for prisoners of war, and after the capitulation of The Netherlands the Germans took over the prison. (De Scheveningse gevangenis werd in de eerste dagen van de oorlog nog gebruikt voor Duitse krijgsgevangenen, maar na de capitulatie namen de Duitsers de gevangenis over) See http://www.oranjehotel.org/

==External links==

*[http://www.pulitzer.org/ Pulitzer Prizes] official site

The "Oranjehotel" was as no time a hotel but always a correction facility, and I think this needs to be specified, or the correct name of the institution used which is "Scheveningse Huis van Bewaring".(My fault but I have no idea what the English name would be for Huis van Bewaring, therefore I used it's nickname).

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A Huis of Bewaring is a place were inmates were kept in cells to await trail and sentencing. It's unclear why the place became more known by it's nickname then official name.

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