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Today you can find billions of Novels in market or online websites today that too in numerous languages few are translated in all languages. But if you feel that the actual beauty is in the novel which is written in an actual language not translated like from original to any other language. And when you talk about Punjabi novels there is this different essence of Punjab in such novels which are originally written in Punjabi by famous writers.

So let’s have a look at top 15 Punjabi novels so that you can read them and feel the beauty of Punjab.

1. Pinjar(Hindi Hardcover Jan 01 2014) by Amrita Pritam

An heartbreaking story about a girl who was kidnapped and refused to be accepted by her father. She tries and succeeds in returning another girl. Dr. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi of Chanakya serial fame made a film based on this novel with the same name.

Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi and Hindi writer who lived from August 31, 1919, to October 31, 2005. Amrita Pritam, the first Punjabi language poet, was born in the Gujranwala area of Punjab (India) (now in Pakistan following the 1947 India Pakistan partition).

Amrita Pritam was one of the numerous poets whose writings have been admired and translated into a variety of national and international languages. Amrita Pritam was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest distinction after the Bharat Ratna, in her final days. She was also given the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award, which is India’s highest literary honour.

2. Chitta Lahu

This novel depicts the real societal issues that have always existed but have been overlooked. And Nanak Singh has accurately depicted each and every character.

Start with Nanak Singh’s writings if you’re looking for a classic Punjabi novel.

The author of this novel tells us about a girl who has to go through a lot of hardships because of society’s laws. Sundri is the primary character in this storey.

Nanak Singh is a Punjabi novelist who lives in the Pakistani village of Chak Hameed in the district of Jehlum. Nanak Singh became his new name. He was imprisoned for his involvement in the Gurdwara Reform movement. In jail, he discovered the meaning of his existence through reading Munshi Prem Chand’s novels. He began writing novels in order to bring attention to the societal ills that plague our society.

His ideal characters would use their moral endeavours to alter society. His characters have a huge impact on the readers. His stories have well-knit narratives, and his narration style is so compelling and rich with Punjabi idioms and proverbs that readers can’t put them down. For four decades, he ruled over a generation of readers. He received the Sahit Akademi Award.

3. Main Te Main

Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born on July 23, 1936, in the Pakistani town of Bara Pind Lohtian. His early years were spent in the rustic and enchanting surroundings of Punjab, the country of five rivers, where folk melodies and music abound. Shiv’s poetry was built on the pure spirit of the region, balanced with the folklore and culture of the people who lived there.

Shiv was enthralled with Indian epics as well as Punjabi literature. He held the gurus in high regard, and his renditions of their shabads are reputed to be fascinating. He also enjoyed listening to the saints, hermits, and folk singers who were an important part of Punjabi culture at the time.

His romantic poetry has made him famous. His public recitations of poetry and singing of his own verse made him and his work extremely popular. In 1967, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his epic verse drama Loona, making him the youngest laureate of the honour.

4. PALI (NOVEL)

Jaswant Singh Kanwal is a Punjabi novelist, short storey writer, and essay writer. He was born in the Punjabi village of Dhudike in the Moga District. He dropped out of school and moved to Malaya when he was a youngster. It was there that he became interested in literature for the first time. In 2007, he was honoured with the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award.

He wrote a number of books. His books usually have a rustic tinge to them and eloquently represent Punjabi country life. In general, his essays cast doubt on long-held social norms and beliefs. Many of his most popular novels support the cause of socially relevant problems like as social and gender equality, and he has left-wing leanings.

Sundri written by Bhai Vir Singh’s. Sundri is a symbolic representation of that atmosphere, based on a famous folk song and set in the historical period of Mir Manu, which is notorious for large-scale Sikh massacres. The Nawabs’ courtiers were hell-bent on exterminating the Sikhs. The rulers were oppressive and lusty.

Vir Singh was a Sikh revivalist poet, scholar, and theologian who was instrumental in the revival of Punjabi literature. Singh’s efforts were so significant and prominent that he was granted the title of Bhai, a Sikh honorific given to individuals who could be considered saints.

6. Eho Hamara Jeevan

In this storey, Dalip Kaur Tiwana aimed to depict the terrible life of an ordinary oppressed Indian (Punjabi) woman. Even in a small village, she lives on an island of social outcasts. She doesn’t belong to anyone. However, she does not ‘exist’ socially or individually; she just ‘floats.’

Dalip Kaur Tiwana, who began writing in the early 1960s, has released more than a half-dozen novels, but Eh Hamara Jiwana, a poignant storey about an impoverished peasant girl who becomes a victim of wild human passion, is her most notable work to date. In this storey, she used the Malwa regional dialect to portray profound interior thoughts with minimal usage of words.

7. Lahu Mitti

Sant Singh Sekhon’s Lahu Mitti (Blood and Soil) tells the narrative of a Punjab peasant in the midst of massive agricultural and economic transformation. The short storey is Sekhon’s most important contribution to Punjabi fiction. Jaswant Singh Kanwal, like Nanak Singh, is a prolific writer who is emotional in his storytelling and a devout Marxist.

8. PUNJABIAT

Kartar Singh Duggal, also known as K.S., is a Punjabi actor. Duggal was born in Dhamyal village in the Greater Punjab district of Rawalpindi (now Pakistan). He wrote books in Punjabi, his mother tongue. Short tales, novels, dramas, plays, and memoirs are among his most notable works. His works have been translated into several Indian and international languages. He wrote in Urdu, Hindi, and English on a regular basis.

In 1988, the Government of India bestowed the Padma Bhushan upon Mr. Duggal. He received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, India’s National Academy of Letters’ highest honour. He was the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament. He worked for All India Radio and the National Book Trust of India. In New Delhi, he was the President of the Punjabi Sahit Sabha.

9. Maharani Jinda

Sohan Singh Seetal is a Punjabi poet, lyricist, and author. After 1947, he moved into literature and published several novels, some of which deal with women’s issues in Punjabi society. Sheetal portrays the lives of people in rural Punjab in a very vivid and authentic manner.

10. Ranjit Singh – Punjab Da Maharaja

Khushwant Singh portrays Ranjit Singh in his true form. This is a remarkable description of the splendour and brilliance of the Sikh monarchy during the height of its strength, and a lively depiction of one of India’s most colourful individuals, based on Persian, Punjabi, and English sources, as well as diaries and memoirs of European travellers.

Khushwant Singh will go down in Indian literary history as one of the best historians and novelists, as well as a frank political commentator and a superb observer and social critic.

The President of India gave Khushwant Singh the Padma Bhushan in 1974, but he returned it in 1984 in protest of the Union Government’s siege of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

11. Tufanan Da Shah Aswar Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha

A new on Shaheed Kartar Singh sarabha Authored by Sikh Historian Bhai Ajmer Singh. It clearly depict the fight of Sikhs against freedom.

Ajmer Singh Aulakh was one of the most creative and influential writers and playwrights in the history of the revolutionary movement in Punjab and India, and his legacy will be remembered for generations. In 2006, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award.

12. Midhe Hoe Phul by Nanak Singh

Famous Punjabi Noveist Nanak Singh’s novel very emotional.

Loona is a Kissa song from the hill region’s folklore. Shiv Kumar, a well-known Punjabi poet, has written in his own unique style.

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Books | why los angeles dodgers great clayton kershaw agreed to a new biography, the future hall of famer is the subject of “the last of his kind: clayton kershaw & the burden of greatness” by andy mccullough..

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A couple of years later, the Astros sign-stealing scandal  would put Kershaw’s rough outing in a different light, but th e three-time Cy Young winner finds himself in one of the most confounding positions in sports history: He’s an all-time top-shelf great — his 2.48 ERA is the best among all pitchers with at least 1,500 innings pitched since 1920, as are his 1.00 WHIP and .585 OPS allowed – who is also defined by a handful of playoff losses. Oddly, the highlights, like in 2016 when Kershaw pitched in relief to get his first career save and defeat the Nationals to go to the NLCS , are overlooked because they don’t fit the narrative.  

The enigma that is the future Hall of Famer is the subject of “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw & the Burden of Greatness” by Andy McCullough , a former Los Angeles Times Dodgers beat writer who now covers all of MLB for The Athletic . McCullough spent time with the lanky lefty at his home in Highland Springs, Texas where Kershaw was raised. Kershaw is a child of divorce, and these formative years shaped his dedication to stability, both at home with his high school sweetheart-turned-wife Ellen and their four kids, and on the diamond where every fifth day is sacrosanct.

The future Hall of Fame Dodger pitcher is the subject of “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw & the Burden of Greatness” by Andy McCullough. (Courtesy of Hachette)

Clayton Kershaw is the subject of “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw & the Burden of Greatness” by Andy McCullough. (Photo credit Dee McMeekan / Courtesy of Hachette)

Injured Dogers pitcher Clayton Kershaw smiles on the field during warmups before the team’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to the plate during the first inning of Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers works out in the bullpen prior to Game 2 of a National League Division Series baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday, October 9, 2023. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Clayton Kershaw #22, Walker Buehler, left, and Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals7-1 to win a opening day baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to the plate during the second inning of their game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday in Milwaukee. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw celebrates after getting a strikeout to end the top of the seventh inning of their game against the New York Mets on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw had nine strikeouts in seven shutout innings and earned his 200th career victory in the Dodgers’ 5-0 win. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw sits in the bullpen prior to Game 2 of their National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw was the losing pitcher in Game 1. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (22) reacts after left fielder David Peralta caught a line drive hit by San Francisco Giants’ Austin Slater during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw takes the field before the start of their game against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. It was Kershaw’s first game back since being out with an injury since June 27. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Clayton Kershaw is the subject of “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw & the Burden of Greatness” by Andy McCullough. The audiobook is narrated by LJ Ganser. (Courtesy of Hachette)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, center, stands for the national anthem before a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw shows his frustration in the dugout after being removed during the first inning of Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to the plate during the first inning of Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

McCullough turns back the sportswriter’s clock and delivers a thorough biography with authorial authority – a Clayton Kershaw vanity project this is not. “The Last of His Kind” goes deep in the count on Kershaw’s thrilling victories, agonizing defeats, incredibly durable career, and going head-to-head with the one opponent who never loses, Father Time . The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q. “The Last of His Kind” is a straightforward biography. Given that big-time athletes often have final say in the narrative of their memoir or documentary, how did you get Kershaw to agree to the old-school writer-subject way? 

Kershaw keeps a tight circle and doesn’t have layers of agents and managers. On major decisions, he consults Ellen and a few close friends, but there isn’t a large coterie of handlers. In May 2022, I approached him and said I wanted to write a book about his career and that I thought it would be a lot better if he participated. I’d interviewed him a lot over the years, so he has a sense of my process. There wasn’t much of a negotiation really.  

I don’t think Clayton was particularly interested in a first-person sort of thing, but he’s aware of his accomplishments and his place in the game, so of course, he knows someone was going to write a book sooner than later. He’s not the most loquacious person, but he was incredibly available, and scheduled plenty of time to talk to me. I think Kershaw is unique in that way: No hoops to jump through. 

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Q. Kershaw isn’t a big public personality with a million wild stories filling up notebooks, so how would you describe him to a casual fan?

For lack of a better term, he’s normal. He’s a down-to-earth dude. He loves to compete and is maniacal about his approach to pitching, but off the field, it’s primarily just family and faith. He genuinely loves hanging out with his kids. Kershaw isn’t an outlandish character, by any means, but he has his quirks and amusing characteristics. He loves breaking into phones to see who teammates dated when they were younger and he was such a fan of The New Girl he got himself a cameo with Zooey Deschanel. But yes, even after all these years in Los Angeles, his best friends are still the laptop class guys – bankers, tech, real estate – he grew up with Highland Park. 

Kershaw’s parents divorced when he was 12; dad drifted away, mom struggled to stay afloat in the affluent suburb, so family stability is essential to him. His marriage grounds him. Clayton and Ellen have been together since their freshman year of high school and the genuine affection and affinity they have for one another is charming. It’s a big part of why Kershaw never really tested free agency, and even then only considered leaving the Dodgers for the Rangers, his hometown team. 

Q: Before we get into the postseason disappointments, is it fair to say Kershaw’s playoff successes have been overshadowed?  

He beat the Brewers in the 2020 playoffs  to go to the NLDS with 13 strikeouts and no runs over eight innings, and I don’t even think that’s in the book! He’s had masterful performances, you can’t pitch any better than he did in Game One against the Astros . But I didn’t write the book as a defense of Kershaw, per se, because the numbers and outcomes are what they are. His playoff ERA is two points higher than in the regular season , but he’s painted with a broad brush as a “choker” and it’s far from the full story. 

Q: Was Kershaw reticent at all to revisit these crushing losses?  

No, Clayton gets it. He’s very self-aware and understands it’s baked into his legacy. He’s also good at moving on, although one loss is tougher than others. The remaining open wound is that Game Five loss to Houston. Knowing the Astros might have been cheating has made it tough to accept, he’s struggled to get beyond it. He framed it as living with PTSD.

Q. You do a great job in “The Last of His Kind” of showing how Kershaw’s playoff meltdowns accumulate and get lumped together over time, but each game has its own individual set of circumstances.

At the end of the day, he’s the future Hall-of-Famer atop the mountain, so he shoulders the responsibility of the outcome when he’s on the mound. But if you go back and watch a lot of these games – especially in the early years – and see how they play out, there are specific reasons why games unfolded the way they did.

Take the 2014 Cardinals NLDS Game One 10-9 loss to the Cardinals. At that time, it wasn’t as ubiquitously understood that historically, starting pitchers struggle the third time through the batting order , but the Dodgers bullpen wasn’t great that season either. The manager Don Mattingly and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt debated if they trusted Kershaw more than their relievers. In hindsight, a fresh arm would’ve obviously been better, but it wasn’t as ironclad a move as it is now. This isn’t to say Kershaw isn’t obstinate in believing in his abilities, for good reason, but the on-field stories behind his losses are much more interesting than simply, he fails again. I didn’t get granular with every game, but when you dig into the ones that went sideways, the results are often improbable but not inexplicable. What’s fascinating is how so much of Kershaw’s career comes down to “The Burden of Greatness.” 

Q: I have Dodgers fans in my family and one of them said winning the 2020 World Series “doesn’t count” because the truncated COVID season. Is that a sentiment you’ve heard from the organization in any way? 

In the immediate aftermath of winning, definitely not. The players saw it as a major triumph, in part because of the insanity of the COVID season. Kershaw felt it was a huge weight lifted off the Dodgers – the World Series is the World Series – and he still feels that way. Organizationally however, I do sense a shift over the last four years to downplay it because of their inability to get back to the World Series. Frustration is building, especially after the 2022 111-win Dodgers juggernaut squad lost the NLDS to an 89-win Padres team . 

Personally, I feel like the 2020 World Series is legit. MLB put everyone’s health at risk playing that idiotic shortened season, so if it “doesn’t count,” what the heck are we even doing here? 

Q: Lastly, how is Kershaw’s recovery going and what are the chances we’ve seen the last of “The Last of His Kind?”  

After the 2023 season, he had capsule surgery on his left throwing shoulder , the first major procedure he’s undergone. Kershaw has been remarkable in his durability that way, but at 36, with all of his mileage, his body is by no means guaranteed to cooperate. He’s in good spirits rehabbing and hoping to be back in July or August. I asked him if he could live with his last game being the playoff loss to the Diamondbacks where he didn’t get out of the first inning. He said ‘I could be okay with it, but right now, I don’t have to be,’ meaning he is going to do whatever it takes to get back on the mound. I don’t know if it’s for his own edification or to shut people up, or more likely both, but he said it’s important he come back and have further postseason success. How long will he chase it if his body doesn’t bounce back? That I don’t know. 

Q: It would be wild if Kershaw came back in late summer and went on a tear that lasted throughout the World Series…  

People have speculated that he pitched better in the 2020 playoffs because he wasn’t gassed from carrying the Dodgers for an entire season. So maybe a last start in 2024 could benefit him in the postseason, which would be amazing… And not just for the paperback. 

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Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.

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Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and biography, which had two winners.

Night Watch , by Jayne Anne Phillips

A story about a mother and daughter set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va., after the Civil War. “Night Watch,” which was also longlisted for the National Book Award, is about surviving war and its aftermath. “I consider Phillips to be among the greatest and most intuitive of American writers,” wrote our critic Dwight Garner.

Fiction finalist: Wednesday’s Child: Stories , by Yiyun Li

A short story collection written over the course of a decade that examines aging and loss. The stories touch on a woman who makes a spreadsheet of every person she’s lost, a middle-aged practitioner of Eastern medicine and an 88-year-old biologist.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Fiction finalist: Same Bed Different Dreams , by Ed Park

An imagined alternate history of Korea that includes assassins, slasher films and the dangers of social media. In a review in The Times, the critic Hamilton Cain called the book “wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches; will one slip his agile hands?”

Random House

No Right to an Honest Living , by Jacqueline Jones

Jones, a historian and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, examines the hypocrisy of Boston before the Civil War. The city was known for its antislavery rhetoric and as the center of abolitionism, but Black residents endured “casual cruelty” in the work force and were condemned to lives of poverty without the chance for equal employment.

Basic Books

History finalist: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion , by Elliott West

This is an examination of the American West and its physical and cultural transformation in the 19th century. The book covers the 1840s, when the West was home to various Native cultures, and moves through the next three decades, when the area was organized into states and territories and connected by railroads and telegraph wires.

University of Nebraska Press

History finalist: American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the U.S. Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Michael Willrich

This book is a history of the American anarchist movement in the early 20th century. While many working class immigrants saw it as heroic, others considered it a frightening foreign ideology.

King: A Life , by Jonathan Eig

This major study of the civil rights icon draws on a landslide of recently released White House telephone transcripts, F.B.I. documents, letters, oral histories and other material. Eig shows a masterly command of his research, showing King in intimate moments, and arguing that his nonviolence has been mistaken for passivity. Put simply, our critic Dwight Garner wrote, “Eig’s book is worthy of its subject.”

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom , by Ilyon Woo

In 1848, William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple, disguised themselves as a sick, wealthy white man traveling with his male slave and headed north. Woo tells the story of their stunning, perilous journey in novelistic detail, tracing their path through the United States and eventual passage to England, where they wrote a popular book about their escape.

Simon & Schuster

Biography finalist: “ Larry McMurtry: A Life ,” by Tracy Daugherty

This is the first comprehensive biography of McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Lonesome Dove” and “The Last Picture Show,” among other novels. Daugherty has also written biographies of Joseph Heller and Joan Didion, and his latest “reads a bit like one of McMurtry’s novels,” our critic Dwight Garner wrote in his review. “Elegy and humor bleed into each other.”

St. Martin’s Press

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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice , by Cristina Rivera Garza

In 1990, Rivera Garza’s 20-year-old sister was killed, and the case is a jumping-off point for this searching, personal examination of femicide in Mexico. The book is “one of the most effective resurrections of a murder victim I have ever read,” our reviewer, Katherine Dykstra, wrote. “Rivera Garza draws her sister, then complicates that drawing and then complicates the complication, creating layer upon layer of nuance.”

Memoir finalist: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight , by Andrew Leland

The author, a longtime editor and podcaster, details his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that is gradually causing him to lose his vision. His writing is “jazzy and intelligent,” our critic Alexandra Jacobs said, “with licks of understated humor.” Yet Leland also “rigorously explores the disability’s most troubling corners,” resulting in an affecting study of vision and its limits.

Penguin Press

Memoir finalist: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions , by Jonathan Rosen

In this account of his friendship with Michael Laudor, who came to prominence as a Yale student trying to publicly destigmatize mental illness and later was convicted of stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death, Rosen offers a look at the boundaries between brilliance and insanity. Our critic Alexandra Jacobs called it “an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.”

GENERAL NONFICTION

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy , by Nathan Thrall

This book tells the story of a deadly bus crash outside Jerusalem through the eyes of a Palestinian father whose 5-year-old died in the accident. The father’s agony is compounded by the physical and legal restrictions that shape the lives of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Thrall also examines the political, bureaucratic and personal decisions that contributed to the crash, and “vignettes of individual guilt come up against stark political realities,” our reviewer Rozina Ali wrote.

Metropolitan Books

General nonfiction finalist: Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World , by John Vaillant

In 2016, wildfires tore through Fort McMurray, in the Canadian province of Alberta. Vaillant details how the fire began, how it traveled and the wreckage it left behind, weaving a story of a warming climate, a massive oil reserve and the apocalyptic fallout. The heart of the story, of course, is the fire itself: “Vaillant anthropomorphizes fire,” our reviewer David Enrich wrote. “Not only does it grow and breathe and search for food; it strategizes. It hunts. It lays in wait for months, even years.”

General nonfiction finalist: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives , by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt is an essential mineral used in the lithium-ion rechargeable batteries that power devices from smartphones to electric vehicle. This book, from an academic who has studied modern slavery, examines the horrors of cobalt mining, particularly the hazardous conditions and subsistence pay that workers face.

Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som

In this collection, Som celebrates his multicultural heritage and family memories, writing about his grandmother, who was Chicana and worked nights on an assembly line at a Motorola factory, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran a corner store.

Georgia Review Books

Poetry finalist: Information Desk: An Epic , by Robyn Schiff

Schiff chronicles her five years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk, where she answered mostly one question. As she writes in “Information Desk,” the “catechism/commences: Where’s the bathroom? / Where’s / the bathroom? Can you direct me to a / men’s room? ” Writing about the book for The Times, Maggie Lange called it “a searing yet reverent book-length poem, containing as many jokes as it does social critiques.”

Penguin Poets

Poetry finalist: To 2040, by Jorie Graham

Graham’s 15th poetry collection is narrated by a speaker looking toward the future while reflecting on her own mortality. The collection begins with questions stated as fact: “Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map.”

Copper Canyon Press

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‘Night Watch,’ ‘King: A Life,’ among 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners

“ Night Watch ,” by Jayne Anne Phillips, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “ A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy ” by Nathan Thrall won the award for general nonfiction.

Village Voice critic Greg Tate was awarded a posthumous special citation for his innovative music and literary criticism on Black culture. His essay collection “Flyboy in the Buttermilk” (1992) and its sequel, “Flyboy 2” (2016), have been profound influences on generations of cultural critics. After Tate died at 64 , in 2021, journalist and jazz writer Adam Shatz wrote in a tweet that Tate was “to avant-Black music what Clement Greenberg was to Abstract Expressionism, a pioneering critic, canon-builder, curator, astronaut-explorer of planets unknown to most of his peers.”

This is the final year that eligibility for the literary and arts prizes was restricted to U.S. citizens. The Pulitzer Prize board announced in September that, starting with the 2025 awards cycle, it would broaden eligibility to permanent residents and “those who have made the United States their longtime primary home.” Previously, authors of any nationality could win the history prize for a book on U.S. history; now, consistent with the updated rule, entries in that category “must be written by U.S. authors.”

Here’s a full list of the 2024 winners and finalists in all of the categories:

1. Fiction: “ Night Watch ” by Jayne Anne Phillips

The author’s sixth novel continues to reflect her interest in how war scars both civilians and combatants. This one takes place in her home state of West Virginia, where 12-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, struggle to survive the brutal, chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In a review in The Washington Post, Wendy Smith wrote : “Phillips’s artistic conscience won’t let her flinch from this truth,” that good and bad people often suffer equally, “but her generous heart won’t let it be the last word.”

Phillips called the Pulitzer news “unbelievable.” She was just stepping outside of her home in her Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain to tend to flowers on her balcony when, she said, “I happened to check my email and there was an email from my editor’s assistant. I thought he was joking, but then I started seeing other messages.”

The author spent eight years working on “Night Watch,” and she considers it to form a trilogy of sorts with two of her previous novels: “Machine Dreams,” about an American family’s experience during the Vietnam War, and “Lark and Termite,” about a family in West Virginia whose father is fighting in the Korean War. “The period during the Civil War, especially the experience of unsung, ordinary people, is something we should all be thinking about because we are such a divided country,” Phillips said. “It’s an inescapable fact that there are parallels.”

“Wednesday’s Child” by Yiyun Li

“ Same Bed Different Dreams ” by Ed Park

2. General Nonfiction: “ A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy ” by Nathan Thrall

Thrall’s book grew out of a 2021 article he wrote for the New York Review of Books. The book follows Salama, a Palestinian man living in the occupied territories of the West Bank, on the long, Kafkaesque path he had to take to learn the fate of his 5-year-old son after a bus accident. The tragedy becomes a lens through which Thrall, a journalist, explores other systemic issues involving the Israeli government and Palestinian life, such as the separation wall and permit system that forced the school bus to detour, the slow response of emergency services, and the ID card system that prevented Salama from searching Jerusalem hospitals for his child.

The book was published just days before the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, and as Israel invaded Gaza, a quarter of Thrall’s scheduled book talks and appearances this past fall were called off .

Reached by phone at the bar in Berlin where he was celebrating after learning the Pulitzer news, Thrall said, “You know, the truly ironic thing about all of this is that Josh [Yaffa, a writer for the New Yorker] and I are doing an event around the book tomorrow in Frankfurt — and that Frankfurt event was canceled. We had to scramble just in the last few days to find another venue for it because of the insane atmosphere in Germany about anything mildly critical of Israel.”

“ Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World ” by John Vaillant

“Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” by Siddarth Kara

3. Memoir or Autobiography: “ Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice ” by Cristina Rivera Garza

In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Cristina Rivera Garza investigates the murder of her sister in Mexico City, which at the time was considered a “crime of passion” rather than “femicide” or “intimate partner violence.”

Garza “may never find what she is seeking, but writing about the process is a kind of conjuring of the sister she lost. An artful catharsis,” wrote Erika L. Sanchez in her review for The Post . “Her words come together in a book that is not so much plot-driven but rather a very careful excavation.”

“The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight” by Andrew Leland

“ The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions ” by Jonathan Rosen

4. History: “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era” by Jacqueline Jones

Jacqueline Jones, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been a Pulitzer finalist twice before, for her work on the history of race and the roles of Black women. Her new book takes its title from an 1860 speech given by doctor John S. Rock, criticizing White Bostonians for their “studied indifference” to the plight of their Black neighbors even as they criticized the South.

“Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion” by Elliott West

“American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” by Michael Willrich

5. Biography: “King: A Life” by Jonathan Eig and “Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom” by Ilyon Woo

“King,” widely regarded as the definitive biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., made headlines last year when Eig shared his archival discovery that King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X appeared to have been fabricated. In his Post review calling it “the most compelling account of King’s life in a generation,” Mark Whitaker noted that the book “deals only briskly with the complex and evolving rivalry” between the two activists, though he praised its nuanced portrait of Coretta Scott King.

“Master Slave Husband Wife” follows a couple’s escape, in 1848, from the slave state of Georgia to Pennsylvania. The wife, Ellen Craft, personated a wealthy White enslaver; her husband, William, played the role of her enslaved attendant. “I’ve been continually inspired by each of the choices the Crafts make,” author Ilyon Woo told NPR . “It starts, of course, with their journey and pursuing their own freedom. The way in which they continually challenge themselves — for me, that’s been an ongoing inspiration.”

“ Larry McMurtry: A Life ” by Tracy Daugherty

6. Poetry: “Tripas: Poems” by Brandon Som

“Tripas” draws on the experiences of Som’s Chicana grandmother and Chinese grandfather to explore ideas of family history, language and other inherited practices. “American family elegy has rarely found such multilayered wordplay,” wrote critic Stephanie Burt in the London Review of Books.

“ To 2040 ” by Jorie Graham

“Information Desk: An Epic” by Robyn Schiff

This story has been updated.