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    2005 Pulitzer prizes announced in New York
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    Updated: 2005-04-05 08:50

    Academy Award-winning screenplay writer John Patrick Shanley and the nation's poet laureate, Ted Kooser, were among the winners Monday of Pulitzer Prizes in the arts. Marilynne Robinson received the fiction award for "Gilead," her first novel in more than 20 years.


    Marilynne Robinson, a faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, sits in her home after winning the Pulitzer prize for fiction Monday, April 4, 2005, in Iowa City, Iowa. Robinson was honored for 'Gilead,' a novel about the experiences and thoughts of a small-town Iowa minister. [AP]

    "It's such a private thing to write a book and when I'm writing I can't think about whether it will appeal to other people," said Robinson, a teacher at the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, speaking breathlessly on her cell phone as she walked across campus. "But it's such a profound treat that people do find it meaningful."

    Robinson, who debuted in 1981 with the acclaimed "Housekeeping," had already won the National Book Critics Circle prize for "Gilead," a contemporary epistle of a dying Iowa preacher looking back on his life and the lives of his ancestors.

    Her win also continues a remarkable streak for her publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which for seven out of the past eight years has released a novel that received either the Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award. Those books include Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex" and Shirley Hazzard's "The Great Fire."

    Shanley, whose screenplay for "Moonstruck" won an Oscar in 1988, received the drama Pulitzer for "Doubt," his Broadway debut. "I have been trawling around for a long time before they let me come up out of the muck," the 54-year-old Shanley, who has been a playwright for 25 years, said with a laugh.

    "Doubt," set in the Bronx in 1964, tells the story of an authoritarian nun and her confrontations with a well-liked parish priest she suspects of molesting a male student. The playwright said the play was born out of his interest in that Catholic school world.

    "I went to a church in the Bronx in 1964. It was a such a specific world that has now vanished, a world involving the Sisters of Charity, who dressed in black robes and black bonnets," he said. "More recently, the world around me started to remind me in certain key ways of this time — of people of conviction and people who weren't certain at odds with each other — and their power struggle."

    David Hackett Fischer, a professor at Brandeis University, received the prize for history for "Washington's Crossing," a finalist last fall for the National Book Award. Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan won in the biography category for "de Kooning: An American Master." Stevens and Swan were about to work on their taxes with their accountant when they got the news.

    "We're very happy, and surprised," Stevens said. "We think of the Pulitzer as a prize that ordinarily goes to generals and statesmen. We're very happy it sometimes goes to a painter, musician or writer."

    Kooser won in poetry for "Delights and Shadows," making him the rare sitting laureate to receive such an award. Kooser, who lives in Garland, Neb., is a retired insurance executive who was named to his current position last August. He has written 10 collections of poetry, and his work has appeared in a number of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Hudson Review and Prairie Schooner.

    "It's something every poet dreams of," Kooser said of the Pulitzer in a statement released by the University of Nebraska. "There are so many gifted poets in this country, and so many marvelous collections published each year. That mine has been selected is a great honor."

    Steve Coll collected his second Pulitzer, winning in general nonfiction for "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001." In 1990, while serving as South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post, he captured a Pulitzer for explanatory journalism. The author of four books, he is now an associate editor at the Post.

    "I have a bottle (of champagne) here. I haven't opened it yet," he said.

    Coll said he decided to write the book after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because he felt "those who lived through it when it was an obscure" story really ought to try and put in perspective."

    The music award went to Steven Stucky for "Second Concerto for Orchestra." Stucky, a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for "Concerto for Orchestra," finally won the honor Monday with the perhaps fittingly named "Second Concerto for Orchestra," which the Los Angeles Philharmonic premiered on March 12, 2004.

    When asked for his reaction by The Associated Press, Stucky described it as relief.

    "It is nice to get it over with," Stucky chuckled. "I've flirted with it a couple of times."

    Pulitzer Winner List

    Journalism

    BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
    Staff of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.

    INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
    Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Ore.

    EXPLANATORY REPORTING
    Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe

    BEAT REPORTING
    Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal

    NATIONAL REPORTING
    Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times

    INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
    Two Prizes: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times

    Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.

    FEATURE WRITING
    Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune

    COMMENTARY
    Connie Schultz of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

    CRITICISM
    Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal

    EDITORIAL WRITING
    Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee

    EDITORIAL CARTOONING
    Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

    BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
    Associated Press Staff

    FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
    Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle

    Letters & Drama

    FICTION
    Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

    DRAMA
    Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley

    HISTORY
    Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)

    BIOGRAPHY
    de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)

    POETRY
    Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)

    GENERAL NON-FICTION
    Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)

    MUSIC
    Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky





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