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Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Awards
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2015
Longlisted — Booker Prize, 2014
Winner — Northern California Book Award, 2015
Winner — Pulitzer Prize, 2019
Shortlisted — Chautauqua Prize, 2019
Winner — William Dean Howells Medal, 2020
Runner-Up — Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2019
Shortlisted — PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2019
Shortlisted — ABA Indies Choice Book Award, 2019
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2019
Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2018
Shortlisted — PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, 2019
Shortlisted — Booker Prize, 2018
Shortlisted — Booker Prize, 2021
Longlisted — National Book Award, 2021
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2022
Longlisted — Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2022
Longlisted — Booker Prize, 2024
Shortlisted — Kirkus Prize, 2024
Books by Richard Powers
Playground: A Novel
E Book
Playground: A Novel
Paperback, 2024
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of The Overstory...