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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2025 | Shortlist |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 2025 | Winner |
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction | 2025 | Winner |
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2025 | Shortlist |
| Booker Prize | 2024 | Shortlist |
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2024 | Shortlist |
| Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction | 2024 | Winner |
| Waterstones Book of the Year | 2024 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Percival Everett's reimagining of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, renamed James, follows the enslaved man through the antebellum South with a subversive wit that reclaims Black interiority from Twain's narrative. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
About the Author
Percival Everett is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 1956, he studied philosophy at the University of Miami and received his MA from Brown University. He is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry across a career of remarkable range, formal innovation, and critical intelligence. Read more →
