2026 Pulitzer Winners Announced

Pulitzer Prize officials announced the 2026 winners on Monday, awarding the fiction prize to Daniel Kraus for his novel "Angel Down," a World War I story with a celestial twist told in a single 300-page sentence.

Kraus, 50, received acclaim for a stylistic tour de force that blends allegory, magical realism and science fiction, according to the Pulitzer board. The author, known for a prolific career spanning horror, science fiction, graphic novels and children's books, has collaborated with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro, contributing to the latter's Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water." A previous Bram Stoker Award recipient, Kraus expressed surprise at the honor. When texts arrived Monday with exclamations like "Wow!", he initially feared trouble. He told The Associated Press that he started with a conventional narrative but ditched punctuation to capture the endless feel of war. "It's like you have the feeling of being locked into the book forever," Kraus said.

The drama prize went to Bess Wohl for "Liberation," a memory play revisiting 1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups. It gathers women from diverse backgrounds to confront misogyny, internalized...