Pulitzer prizes awarded in US

STORIES of oppression both in the United States and abroad have been rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes in New York.

Edward P Jones won the fiction prize for The Known World, a novel about a black slave owner. In history, the winner was Steven Hahn for A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration.

Anne Applebaum’s Gulag, a history of the brutal Soviet labour camps, won for general non-fiction, while another book about the Soviet Union, William Taubman’s Khrushchev, was cited for biography.