The Netanyahus

"Winner"

"Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s a genre-bending campus comedy about the Jewish-American experience which has attracted rave reviews. Writing in The Guardian , Leo Robson described it as “a comic historical fantasia” that reads “like an attempt, as delightful as it sounds, to cross-breed Roth’s The Ghost Writer and Nabokov’s Pale Fire .” At the National Book Awards, Tess Gunty won the prize for fiction for her debut novel The Rabbit Hutch . The ‘rabbit hutch’ of the title is an affordable housing block in post-industrial Indiana, where residents live on top of each other. It’s set over a single, sweltering week that will ultimately end in violence. The translated literature prize was won by Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses , a short story collection translated by Megan McDowell."