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The members of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row (sitting) left to right: N. Carroll, C. Lozada, K. Lytle Hernández, E. Alexander, E. Ramshaw, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Archibald, A. Applebaum, N. Trethewey, S. Chan, G. Thompson, G. Escobar, K. Merida, D. Remnick, V. T. Nguyen, G. Chua (absent: C. Shipman, J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Elizabeth Alexander and Emily Ramshaw, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Rollo Romig

Publication
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
Citation
A captivating account of a crusading South Indian’s murder, a mystery rich in local culture and politics that also connects to such global themes as authoritarianism, fundamentalism and other threats to free expression.
Publisher
Penguin Books
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Rachel Nolan

Publication
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Citation
A focused, extensively reported study of how, between 1977 and 2007, Guatemala became the second largest source of foreign adoptions in the world, a breeding ground for racism, greed and exploitation.

Publisher
Harvard University Press
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Benjamin Nathans

Citation
A prodigiously researched and revealing history of Soviet dissent, how it was repeatedly put down and came to life again, populated by a sprawling cast of courageous people dedicated to fighting for threatened freedoms and hard-earned rights.
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Categories: General Nonfiction
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Danez Smith

Publication
Bluff: Poems
Citation
A cycle of work that grapples with artistic resilience and the responsibilities of a poet when engaging with powers that have been used to oppress others.
Publisher
Graywolf Press
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Categories: Poetry

Jennifer Chang

Publication
An Authentic Life
Citation
Reflective poems that fuse ancient philosophy with contemporary language and an immigrant perspective in a quest to find truth in the Western world.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Tags: 2025
Categories: Poetry
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