The celebrated novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, has won the Pulitzer Prize 2017 for fiction.

After winning the National Book Award last fall, Whitehead receives another important recognition for his novel. 

For the first time in over 20 years a work receives both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

 

You can find The Underground Railroad  in the library collection, and more information about international literary prizes can be found in the online library guide.