Pulitzer Prize Officials Award Fiction, Poetry, and Music Prizes to Daniel Kraus, Juliana Spahr, and Gabriela Lena Frank
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The poetry prize went to Juliana Spahr’s Ars Poeticas, and the music award was given to Gabriela Lena Frank for Picaflor: A Future Myth, a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.
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Washington Times CultureThe poetry prize went to Juliana Spahr’s “Ars Poeticas,” and the music award was given to Gabriela Lena Frank for “Picaflor: A Future Myth,” a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.
NYT ArtsGabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor: A Future Myth,” premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra, has won the prestigious award for music.
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NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize officials awarded the fiction prize to an author with a history of experimenting with genres and with language itself: Daniel Kraus, cited for “Angel Down,” a World War I narrative with a celestial twist that unfolds over some 300 pages in one long sentence. “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s received the drama prize.
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The Guardian CulturePulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, received the drama prize.
NYT Arts“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”
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Wohl’s memory play collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they tackle misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles. The play navigates between past and present, and six of the actors disrobe for the act two opening scene. The win comes a day before the Tony award nominations, when Liberation is expected to be named in the best new play category.
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Washington Times CultureWohl’s memory play collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they tackle misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles. The play navigates between past and present, and six of the actors disrobe for the Act 2 opening scene. The win comes a day before the Tony Award nominations, when “Liberation” is expected to be named in the best new play category.
NYT ArtsThe prize board called the playwright Bess Wohl’s work “a striking blend of comedy and sincerity.”
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01 Washington Times Culture The 50-year-old Kraus has had a diverse and prolific career quite unlike the average Pulitzer fiction winner. He has written horror, science fiction, graphic novels and books for kids. He has collaborated with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro, whose Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” was conceived with Kraus’ help. He has received numerous prizes over the years, including the Bram Stoker Award for horror, but had never imagined he’d win a Pulitzer. When he began receiving texts Monday - that included such messages as “Wow!” - he worried that he had somehow gotten himself in trouble.
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02 The Guardian Culture The Guardian’s Adrian Horton praised Liberation in a four-star review. “The play offers no concrete answers; one’s personal politics and choices remain, as ever, a thicket of contradictions,” she wrote. “Liberation finds, in that, an immutable and potent grief – for the costs of our failings, for all that’s been lost, for the questions we thought too late to ask. But that doesn’t mean, as this provocative play suggests, that we shouldn’t still ask them.”
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