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‘The Night Watchman’- winner of Pulitzer Prize 2021

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Pulitzer Prize was announced on June 11, 2021 to honor the best work in journalism and arts in 2020.

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Louise Erdrich, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for ‘The Night Watchman’. He is America’s most esteemed novelists. The late Les Payne and daughter Tamara Payne for their Malcolm X biography ‘The Dead Are Arising’ is the other book awarded with this prize.

Pulitzer Prizes awarded special citation to Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the killing of George Floyd.

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were first awarded in 1917 and are considered the field’s most prestigious honor in the United States.