The Nickel Boys, a spare yet harrowing novel by colsonwhitehead that described the abuse of young boys at a Florida boarding school for delinquent youth during the Jim Crow era, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
for the “1619 Project”; international reporting to the foreign staff of the paper, for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime”; and investigative reporting to Brian M. Rosenthal, for a six-part exposé of New York City’s taxi industry “that showed how lenders profited from predatory loans that shattered the lives of vulnerable drivers.”won two awards, for feature writing and cartooning.
The feature-writing prize went to Ben Taub, a staff writer at the magazine since 2017, for “,” which the citation called “a devastating account of a man who was kidnapped, tortured, and deprived of his liberty for more than a decade at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.” And Barry Blitt, who has been contributing to the magazine for nearly three decades, won in the editorial-cartooning category for work that included several magazine covers and an array of cartoons published online.
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