American novelist Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize of fiction for his book, The Nickel Boys.
Whitehead won the honour for the secondtime. He had previously won for Underground Railroad in 2017.
In The Nickel Boys, he traces the abuse suffered by black boys at a reform school in Florida.
The prize for the general non-fiction was won by two books, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, by Anne Boyer and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin.