“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” which grew out of reporting the authors did for The Post, won the award for general nonfiction. Here’s a full list of the winners and finalists in all of the categories.
Fiction: “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz, and “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver“Trust” traces the life story of an early 20th-century financier through a quartet of nested perspectives: a melodramatic novella about their marriage; the unfinished draft of his autobiography, striving to correct the previous narrative; the recollections of a woman hired to help ghostwrite his memoir; and finally, the diary left behind by his wife.
, “in execution it’s an elegant, irresistible puzzle” — and a meditation on how men construct their self-images in part by burying others’ contributions.Diaz received the news during a lunch of chicken and waffles in Greenville, S.C., a stop on his current tour promoting the paperback release of “Trust.” “I had to leave the restaurant when I heard, and I started weeping on the curb,” he said. “It was very embarrassing.
Despite being a Pulitzer finalist for his debut novel, “In the Distance,” Diaz said he wasn’t prepared to win. “I’ve been writing since I was a child,” he said, and has written novels and story collections that were “declined with universal enthusiasm.” Sharing the prize with Kingsolver, “such a brilliant, amazing novelist,” he said, “it’s all too much.”as “equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.
General Nonfiction: “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
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