Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz have each won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Kingsolver has won for her novel Demon Copperhead, and Diaz for his novel Trust.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. The winner receives $15,000. This year is the first time since inception (1948) that the prize has been awarded to fiction books.

Learn more about each winning book below.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.

Trust by Hernan Diaz

A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.