The Pulitzer Prize Board announced on Tuesday that it will be dropping its U.S. citizenship requirement for awards in books, drama and music beginning in 2025.
Javier Zamora talks about “Solito,” his harrowing memoir about journeying from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied 9-year-old..’ Months before, my editor and agent explained that because I wasn’t a citizen there were prizes I wasn’t eligible for,” wrote Zamora, who was born in El Salvador.
He would go on to call out the Pulitzer Prize committee specifically and note the emotional toll it took on him. “Notably, the Pulitzer Prizes, arguably the highest profile, most important literary, artistic and journalist prizes in the U.S., remain closed to writers like myself — someone who has lived in this country since I was a child and who writes about the quintessential American topic, coming to America,” he wrote.
Becoming your family’s translator of what life is like in El Salvador and the realities of the U.S. takes a toll.Zamora added, “After 19 years in this country and with all I had worked to achieve, I still wasn’t enough to be equally considered alongside anyone who has the privilege to have been born in the United States. In other words like a human being. As a previously undocumented person, all I’ve ever wanted was to be considered the same as everyone else.
Of the new eligibility requirements, Pulitzer Prize co-chairs Tommie Shelby and Neil Brown wrote in a statement, “The Board is enthusiastic about ensuring that the Prizes are inclusive and accessible to those producing distinguished work in books, drama and music. This expansion of eligibility is an appropriate update of our rules and compatible with the goals Joseph Pulitzer had in establishing these awards.
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