Annal:2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 1999 LATimes–1st Fiction finalist
- Score: 16.5
Navigating between the Indian traditions they’ve inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In “A Temporary Matter,” published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural…
- 2000 PEN-faulkner winner
- 1999 NBA–Fiction winner
- 2000 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 1999 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 32.5
This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.
For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young—a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he…
- 2000 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 1999 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 12.5
Annie Proulx’s masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In “The Mud Below,” a rodeo rider’s obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In “The Half-Skinned Steer,” an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother’s funeral, and dies a mile from home. In “Brokeback Mountain,” the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world’s violent intolerance.
These are…
