Yang saya tahu Pulitzer adalah penghargaan bergengsi di
Amerika Serikat, bukan hanya untuk karya jurnalistik melainkan juga fiksi! Kita
mungkin bukan orang Amerika, dan bukan kesempatan kita untuk memenangkan
Pulitzer, tapi barangkali kita bisa belajar bagaimana membuat karya yang bagus
dari karya-karya pemenang Pulitzer, khususnya yang berupa fiksi.
Penulis artikel ini menyarikan langkah-langkah untuk
membuat karya kita sekelas karya Pulitzer. Bagaimana cara untuk membuat karya
yang ajaib, yang membuat pembaca jatuh cinta kepada karya tersebut? Hal itu
mungkin tidak bisa dipastikan. Tapi katanya kita bisa loh berlatih untuk
menulis sesuatu yang agung, ambisius, dan berisiko… secara indah.
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| sumber gambar: http://farafinabooks.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/no-2012-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction/ |
Berikut adalah daftar fiksi yang memenangkan Pulitzer. Barangkali
kita bisa memburu beberapa di antaranya untuk dipelajari. Saya sendiri baru
baca “The Hours”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, dan “The Grapes of Warth” (edisi
bahasa Indonesia berjudul “Amarah”, terdiri dari 2 jilid)—semua sudah
diterjemahkan dan diterbitkan dalam bahasa Indonesia. Semula kategori untuk “Fiksi”
dijuduli “Novel”, tapi diubah karena karya yang menjadi nominasi bukan sebatas
novel melainkan juga kumpulan cerpen.
2012 (No award)
2011 A Visit from the
Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)
2010 Tinkers by
Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
2009 Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2008 The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
2007 The Road by
Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006 March by
Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2005 Gilead by
Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
2004 The Known World
by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by
Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2002 Empire Falls
by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
2000 Interpreter of
Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by
Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral
by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1997 Martin Dressler:
The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1996 Independence Day
by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1995 The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1993 A Good Scent from
a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1992 A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1991 Rabbit At Rest
by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings
Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
1989 Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by
Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to
Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1985 Foreign Affairs
by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1984 Ironweed by
William Kennedy (Viking)
1983 The Color Purple
by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike (Knopf)
1981 A Confederacy of
Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana
State U. Press)
1980 The Executioner's
Song by Norman Mailer (Little)
1979 The Stories of
John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1978 Elbow Room by
James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
1977 (No Award)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by
Saul Bellow (Viking)
1975 The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1974 (No Award)
1973 The Optimist's
Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1972 Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1971 (No Award)
1970 Collected Stories
by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1969 House Made of
Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1968 The Confessions
of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1967 The Fixer by
Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1966 Collected Stories
by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1965 The Keepers Of
The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1964 (No Award)
1963 The Reivers
by William Faulkner (Random)
1962 The Edge of
Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1961 To Kill A
Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1960 Advise and
Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1959 The Travels of
Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1958 A Death In The
Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1957 (No Award)
1956 Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1955 A Fable by
William Faulkner (Random)
1954 (No Award)
1953 The Old Man and
the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1952 The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1951 The Town by
Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1950 The Way West
by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)
1949 Guard of Honor
by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1948 Tales of the
South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1947 All the King's
Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1946 (No Award)
1945 A Bell for Adano
by John Hersey (Knopf)
1944 Journey in the
Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)
1943 Dragon's Teeth
by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
1942 In This Our Life
by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1941 (No Award)
1940 The Grapes of
Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1938 The Late George
Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1937 Gone With the
Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1936 Honey in the Horn
by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1935 Now in November
by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom
by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1933 The Store by
T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
1932 The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1931 Years of Grace
by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1930 Laughing Boy
by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1929 Scarlet Sister
Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1928 The Bridge of San
Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1927 Early Autumn
by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1926 Arrowsmith by
Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1925 So Big by
Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1924 The Able
McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1923 One of Ours
by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1922 Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of
Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1920 (No Award)
1919 The Magnificent
Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1918 His Family by
Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
1917 (No Award)
sumber: http://www.pulitzer.org/
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