Literary Prize Winners, 1901 to 2026

Tuesday 29 September 2026

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2026

Angel Down

Daniel Kraus

France, autumn 1918, the Meuse Argonne offensive. Private First Class Cyril Bagger, a bishop's son turned card sharp who has been working burial duty, is ordered by Major General Reis to go out into no man's land and find the source of a shrieking that has been driving the men in the trenches to madness. Four other soldiers nobody will miss go with him: Arno, young and still innocent; Popkin, a brute; Goodspeed, twitchy and nervous; and Veck, wrecked by shell shock.

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Isabel Archer, a spirited young American from Albany, arrives in Europe determined to live entirely on her own terms, and turns down two genuinely advantageous proposals, one from the English aristocrat Lord Warburton and one from the persistent American suitor Caspar Goodwood, in the name of that independence.

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