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RIO – O Pulitzer Prize On Monday afternoon, he released this year’s list of winners in the journalism and publishing and music categories. One of the highlights is the victory of the American historian. Benjamin Moser, known in Brazil for being a biographer of Clarice Lispector, who won in the biography category for “Sontag – Vida e obra”, a book about the American intellectual Susan Sontag, released here by Companhia da Letras.
“Similar to what you did in Clarice Lispector’s biography, there is an ingenious combination between Susan’s diaries, kept for life (and not always consistent with the facts) and what she left immortal: her original and provocative work, committed and critical “, described the professor of philosophy at the UFRJ Carla Rodrigues, who reviewed the BALLOON book last November.
– I am very happy with the award! – Held Moser in touch via WhatsApp messaging app. – Sontag was the most fascinating woman of the 20th century. Or almost: my first love will always be Clarice Lispector. But as a philosopher, writer, critic, intellectual, anyone who wants to understand something about the modern world has to understand Susan Sontag. So, I tried to evoke his life and his work so that they were still alive. And to attract new readers to this work as I could do for Clarice’s.
Another award-winning “acquaintance” here is the American writer and essayist. Colson Whitehead, a Flip attraction in 2018, which won its second fictional Pulitzer, for “O reformatório Nickel” (Harper Collins Brazil), a book about crimes committed against blacks in a youth rehabilitation center in Florida. The book, by the way, entered the list of recommendations of former President Barack Obama last year. Previously, Whitehead had won the award for “The Underground Railroad – The Roads to Freedom” (2016).
– A few years ago, in the summer of 2014, we had several incidents of police brutality, with black youths killed by police, and we felt that we were in a bad place as a country. And I remembered a story about the excavations at Dozier. The story horrified and impressed me that it didn’t get the national impact it deserved. It was a school where children were killed and mistreated, a horror – Whitehead said in an interview with GLOBO about “The Nickel Reformatory” in July last year.
The winner in the romance category was the writer and playwright. Michael R. Jackson, with the text of the metalinguistic musical “A strange loop”, which tells the story of a queer black man who writes a musical about a queer black man who is doing exactly the same thing.
In journalism-focused categories, a field that is the main focus of the Pulitzer, the domain was the American newspaper “New York Times” with three awards. The winning materials were an article by Nikole Hannah-Jones for the ambitious series “The Project 1619”, a look at the legacy of slavery in the United States; Brian M. Rosenthal’s research on predatory lending in the American taxi industry; and a series of articles investigating corruption and fraud by the government of Vladimir Putin, who was awarded the international reporting trophy.
But the top category, public utility in journalism, was won by the Alaska state newspaper Anchorage Daily News and the independent agency ProPublica for a series of reports on the lack of police protection in Alaska villages.
