'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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Pulitzer Prizes

The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners are here.

Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Jim, Huck's enslaved companion on the raft ride.

Another notable winner was Ann Telnaes, a former Washington Post cartoonist who resigned earlier this year after her editor rejected a cartoon she created to mock media and tech leaders' deference to President Donald Trump.

And multiple journalists were recognized this year for coverage of the fentanyl crisis, among other awards for excellence in reporting and criticism.

The prestigious Pulitzer Prize honors American achievements in journalism, books, drama and music.

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