Literature quiz
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1980
Forty seven winning books from 1980 to 2026, with each title as your hint. John Updike and Colson Whitehead each won twice in this period.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 47 answers
- Limit
- 9:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 47
- Time limit
- 9:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name the author of every Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner since 1980.
| Year | Winning book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song | Not found yet |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | Not found yet |
| 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | Not found yet |
| 1983 | The Color Purple | Not found yet |
| 1984 | Ironweed | Not found yet |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs | Not found yet |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove | Not found yet |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | Not found yet |
| 1988 | Beloved | Not found yet |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons | Not found yet |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Not found yet |
| 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | Not found yet |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres | Not found yet |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Not found yet |
| 1994 | The Shipping News | Not found yet |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries | Not found yet |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Not found yet |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | Not found yet |
| 1998 | American Pastoral | Not found yet |
| 1999 | The Hours | Not found yet |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | Not found yet |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Not found yet |
| 2002 | Empire Falls | Not found yet |
| 2003 | Middlesex | Not found yet |
| Year | Winning book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Known World | Not found yet |
| 2005 | Gilead | Not found yet |
| 2006 | March | Not found yet |
| 2007 | The Road | Not found yet |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Not found yet |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | Not found yet |
| 2010 | Tinkers | Not found yet |
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Not found yet |
| 2013 | The Orphan Master's Son | Not found yet |
| 2014 | The Goldfinch | Not found yet |
| 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See | Not found yet |
| 2016 | The Sympathizer | Not found yet |
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad | Not found yet |
| 2018 | Less | Not found yet |
| 2019 | The Overstory | Not found yet |
| 2020 | The Nickel Boys | Not found yet |
| 2021 | The Night Watchman | Not found yet |
| 2022 | The Netanyahus | Not found yet |
| 2023 | Demon Copperhead | Not found yet |
| 2023 | Trust | Not found yet |
| 2024 | Night Watch | Not found yet |
| 2025 | James | Not found yet |
| 2026 | Angel Down | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction honours distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It carries an award of 15,000 dollars.
- No fiction prize was awarded in 2012.
- Two books shared the prize in 2023: Demon Copperhead and Trust.
- John Updike won in 1982 and 1991 for two of his Rabbit novels.
- Colson Whitehead won in 2017 and again in 2020.
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