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"James," by Percival Everett, the second book for the 2025 Louisiana Inspired Book Club, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, in addition to the National Book Award and the ...

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

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When Percival Everett’s novel “James” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, it seemed like an obvious choice. Everett’s subversive reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” had already ...

It was also a Booker finalist and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction. This past summer the novel was on former U.S. president Barack Obama's summer reading list for 2024.

In 2015, there were also four fiction finalists, with the prize going to Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See.” Still, some observers expressed skepticism about this year’s process.

The Pulitzer Prize stands as a defining moment in Everett’s stellar literary career, which also includes his novel Erasure (2001), which inspired the Academy Award-winning film American Fiction.