Premio Pulitzer per la saggistica
Ilpremio Pulitzerper la saggistica(Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction) è un premio letterario assegnato annualmente dal1962a un'opera di saggistica di un autore statunitense, che non sia compresa in un'altra categoria dei Pulitzer (saggi biografici o sulla storia degli Stati Uniti).[1]
A partire dal1980vengono annunciati oltre ai vincitori anche i finalisti.
Albo d'oro
modificaI vincitori sono indicati ingrassetto,a seguire i finalisti.
Anni 1962-1969
modifica- 1962:Come si fa il presidente(The Making of the President, 1960) diTheodore White
- 1963:I cannoni d'agosto(The Guns of August) diBarbara W. Tuchman
- 1964:Società e intellettuali in America(Anti-intellectualism in American Life) diRichard Hofstadter
- 1965:O Strange New WorlddiHoward Mumford Jones
- 1966:Wandering Through WinterdiEdwin Way Teale
- 1967:Il problema della schiavitù nella cultura occidentale(The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture) diDavid Brion Davis
- 1968:Rousseau e la rivoluzione(Rousseau and Revolution), decimo volume diStoria della civiltà(The Story of Civilization) diWilleAriel Durant
- 1969:So Human An AnimaldiRené Jules Dubos,ex aequoconLe armate della notte(The Armies of the Night) diNorman Mailer
Anni 1970-1979
modifica- 1970:La verità di Gandhi(Gandhi's Truth) diErik H. Erikson
- 1971:L'eclisse del Sol Levante(The Rising Sun) diJohn Toland
- 1972:Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45diBarbara W. Tuchman
- 1973:Il lago in fiamme: storia della guerra in Vietnam(Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam) diFrances Fitzgeraldex aequoI figli della crisi: psicanalisi del razzismo(Children of Crisis), volumi II e III diRobert Coles
- 1974:Il rifiuto della morte(The Denial of Death) diErnest Becker
- 1975:Pilgrim at Tinker CreekdiAnnie Dillard
- 1976:Why Survive? Being Old In AmericadiRobert Neil Butler
- 1977:Beautiful SwimmersdiWilliam W. Warner
- 1978:I draghi dell'Eden: considerazioni sull'evoluzione dell'intelligenza umana(The Dragons of Eden) diCarl Sagan
- 1979:Sulla natura umana(On Human Nature) diEdward O. Wilson
Anni 1980-1989
modifica- 1980:Gödel, Escher, Bach: un'eterna ghirlanda brillante(Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) diDouglas Hofstadter
- La medusa e il mollusco e altri appunti di un biologo(The Medusa and the Snail) diLewis Thomas
- The Madwoman in the AtticdiSandra M. GilberteSusan Gubar
- 1981:Vienna fin de siècle: politica e cultura(Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture) diCarl E. Schorske
- Tenebre addio: memorie della guerra del Pacifico(Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War) diWilliam Manchester
- China MendiMaxine Hong Kingston
- Southerners: A Journalist's OdysseydiMarshall Frady
- 1982:The Soul of a New MachinediTracy Kidder
- Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet DoctordiDiana Trilling
- Basin and RangediJohn McPhee
- 1983:Is There No Place On Earth For Me?diSusan Sheehan
- Il destino della terra(The Fate of the Earth) diJonathan Schell
- Terrorists and NovelistsdiDiane Johnson
- 1984:The Social Transformation of American MedicinediPaul Starr
- Wild JusticediSusan Jacoby
- Conversations With the EnemydiWinston GroomeDuncan Spencer
- 1985:The Good War: An Oral History of World War TwodiStuds Terkel
- Endless EnemiesdiJonathan Kwitny
- Dawn to the WestdiDonald Keene
- 1986:Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesdiJ. Anthony Lukasex aequoMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhitediJoseph Lelyveld
- Le abitudini del cuore: individualismo e impegno nella società complessa(Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) diRobert Neelly Bellah
- 1987:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised LanddiDavid K. Shipler
- Rising from the PlainsdiJohn McPhee
- Rain or Shine: A Family MemoirdiCyra McFadden
- 1988:L'invenzione della bomba atomica(The Making of the Atomic Bomb) diRichard Rhodes
- Caos(Chaos: Making a New Science) diJames Gleick
- Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging SocietydiDaniel Callahan
- 1989:Vietnam. Una sporca bugia(A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam) diNeil Sheehan
- The Last FarmerdiHoward Kohn
- L'avventura dell'universo: da Aristotele alla teoria dei quanti e oltre(Coming of Age in the Milky Way) diTimothy Ferris
- Danger and SurvivaldiMcGeorge Bundy
Anni 1990-1999
modifica- 1990:E i loro figli dopo di loro: l'eredità di Sia lode ora a uomini di fama(And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South) diDale MaharidgeeMichael Williamson
- La vita meravigliosa: i fossili di Burgess e la natura della storia(Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History) diStephen Jay Gould
- Una pace senza pace: la caduta dell'impero ottomano e la nascita del Medio Oriente moderno(A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922) diDavid Fromkin
- 1991:Formiche: storia di un'esplorazione scientifica(The Ants) diBert HölldoblereEdward O. Wilson
- Looking for a ShipdiJohn McPhee
- River of Traps: A Village LifediWilliam duBuyseAlex Harris
- 1992:Il premio. L'epica corsa al petrolio, al potere e al denaro(The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power) diDaniel Yergin
- Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsdiThomas Byrne EdsalleMary D. Edsall
- Broken VesselsdiAndre Dubus
- 1993:Lincoln a Gettysburg: le parole che hanno unito l'America(Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America) diGarry Wills
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican FatherdiRichard Rodriguez
- Where the Buffalo RoamdiAnne Matthews
- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WardiSusan Griffin
- 1994:Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpirediDavid Remnick
- The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to FreuddiPeter Gay
- The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern AgediJohn Lukacs
- 1995:Il becco del fringuello: giorno per giorno l'evoluzione delle specie(The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution In Our Time) diJonathan Weiner
- Come moriamo: riflessioni sull'ultimo capitolo della vita(How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter) diSherwin B. Nuland
- Mezzanotte nel giardino del bene e del male(Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story) diJohn Berendt
- 1996:The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismdiTina Rosenberg
- Il gabinetto delle meraviglie di mr. Wilson(Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder) diLawrence Weschler
- L'idea pericolosa di Darwin: l'evoluzione e i significati della vita(Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life) diDaniel C. Dennett
- 1997:Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisdiRichard Kluger
- Fame and FollydiCynthia Ozick
- The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and BeyonddiSamuel G. Freedman
- 1998:Armi, acciaio e malattie: breve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni(Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies) diJared Diamond
- Come funziona la mente(How the Mind Works) diSteven Pinker
- Aria sottile(Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster) diJon Krakauer
- 1999:Annals of the Former WorlddiJohn McPhee
- Non è colpa dei genitori: la nuova teoria dell'educazione(The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do) diJudith Rich Harris
- Crime and Punishment in AmericadiElliott Currie
Anni 2000-2009
modifica- 2000:Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIdiJohn W. Dower
- Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory BirdsdiScott Weidensaul
- L'universo elegante: superstringhe, dimensioni nascoste e la ricerca della teoria ultima(The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory) diBrian Greene
- 2001:Hirohito and the Making of Modern JapandiHerbert P. Bix
- L'opera struggente di un formidabile genio(A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) diDave Eggers
- Newjack: Guarding Sing SingdiTed Conover
- 2002:Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights RevolutiondiDiane McWhorter
- Il demone di mezzogiorno. Depressione: la storia, la scienza, le cure(The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression) diAndrew Solomon
- War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the GeneralsdiDavid Halberstam
- 2003:Voci dall'inferno. L'America e l'era del genocidio(A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide) diSamantha Power
- The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and SpiritdiEllen Meloy
- Tabula rasa: perché non e vero che gli uomini nascono tutti uguali(The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature) diSteven Pinker
- 2004:Gulag: storia dei campi di concentramento sovietici(Gulag: A History) diAnne Applebaum
- The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's MilitarydiDana Priest
- Rembrandt's JewsdiSteven Nadler
- 2005:La guerra segreta della CIA: l'America, l'Afghanistan e Bin Laden dall'invasione sovietica al 10 settembre 2001(Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001) diSteve Coll
- L'autostrada del diavolo: una storia vera(The Devil's Highway: A True Story) diLuís Alberto Urrea
- Maximum City: Bombay città degli eccessi(Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found) diSuketu Mehta
- 2006:Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyadiCaroline Elkins
- The Assassins' Gate: America in IraqdiGeorge Packer
- Dopoguerra: come è cambiata l'Europa dal 1945 a oggi(Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945) diTony Judt
- 2007:Le altissime torri: come Al-Qaeda giunse all'11 settembre(The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) diLawrence Wright
- Il grande fiasco: l'avventura militare americana in Iraq(Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq) diThomas E. Ricks
- Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health MadnessdiPete Earley
- 2008:Gli anni dello sterminio: la Germania nazista e gli ebrei: 1939-1945(The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945) diSaul Friedländer
- Il resto è rumore: ascoltare il XX secolo(The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century) diAlex Ross
- The Cigarette CenturydiAllan Brandt
- 2009:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIdiDouglas A. Blackmon
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropediWilliam I. Hitchcock
- Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgediArthur Herman
Anni 2010-2019
modifica- 2010:The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacydiDavid E. Hoffman
- Come crollano i mercati. La logica delle catastrofi economiche(How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities) diJohn Cassidy
- L'evoluzione di Dio(The Evolution of God) diRobert Wright
- 2011:L'imperatore del male. Una biografia del cancro(The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) diSiddhartha Mukherjee
- Internet ci rende stupidi? Come la rete sta cambiando il nostro cervello(The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain) diNicholas Carr
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistorydiS.C. Gwynne
- 2012:Il manoscritto. Come la riscoperta di un libro perduto cambiò la storia della cultura europea(The Swerve: How the World Became Modern) diStephen Greenblatt
- One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingdiDiane Ackerman
- Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of MendiMara Hvistendahl
- 2013:Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland BoysdiGilbert King
- Belle per sempre(Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity) diKatherine Boo
- The Forest Unseen:A Year's Watch in NaturediDavid George Haskell
- 2014:Toms River: A Story of Science and SalvationdiDan Fagin
- The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten GenocidediGary J. Bass
- The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of WardiFred Kaplan
- 2015:La sesta estinzione: una storia innaturale(The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History) diElizabeth Kolbert
- No Good Men Among the LivingdiAnand Gopal
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinadiEvan Osnos
- 2016:Bandiere Nere. La nascita dell' Isis(Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS)diJoby Warrick
- Tra me e il mondo(Between the World and Me)diTa-Nehisi Coates
- If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of QurandiCarla Power
- 2017:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CitydiMatthew Desmond[2]
- In a Different Key: The Story of AutismdiJohn DonvaneCaren Zucker
- The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National CemeterydiMicki McElya
- 2018:Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericadiJames Forman Jr.
- The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World and UsdiRichard O. Prum
- Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American WorlddiSuzy Hansen
- 2019:Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericadiEliza Griswold
- In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable WorkersdiBernice Yeung
- Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShorediElizabeth Rush
Anni 2020-2029
modifica- 2020:The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericadiGreg Grandinex aequoNon morire(The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care) diAnne Boyer
- Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining LifediLouise Aronson
- SolitarydiAlbert WoodfoxeLeslie George
- 2021:Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White SupremacydiDavid Zucchino
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningdiCathy Park Hong
- Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian CountrydiSierra Crane Murdoch
- 2022[3]:Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American CitydiAndrea Elliott
- Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from ExtremismdiCarla Power
- The Family Roe: An American StorydiJoshua Prager
- 2023[4]:His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial JusticediRobert SamuelseToluse Olorunnipa
- Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China ModerndiJing Tsu
- Suoni fragili e selvaggi(Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction) diDavid George Haskell
- Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our NationdiLinda Villarosa
- 2024[5]:Un giorno nella vita di Abed Salama(A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy) diNathan Thrall
- L'età del fuoco. Una storia vera da un mondo sempre più caldo(Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World) diJohn Vaillant
- Rosso cobalto. Come il sangue del Congo alimenta le nostre vite(Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives) diSiddharth Kara
Note
modifica- ^(EN)Premio Pulitzer - Sito ufficiale,supulitzer.org.URL consultato il 15 maggio 2010.
- ^General Nonfiction,supulitzer.org.URL consultato l'11 aprile 2017.
- ^Al Pulitzer confermati Washington Post e New York Times. Premio speciale per i giornalisti ucraini,suhuffingtonpost.it,10 maggio 2022.URL consultato il 10 maggio 2022.
- ^(EN) Mike Bedigan,Two class-conscious novels named as winners of 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction,suindependent.co.uk,8 maggio 2023.URL consultato il 9 maggio 2023.
- ^Nathan Thrall vince il Pulitzer 2024 per la sezione 'Nonfiction',suagi.it,7 maggio 2024.URL consultato il 9 maggio 2024.
Collegamenti esterni
modifica- (EN)Sito ufficiale,supulitzer.org.
