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The night watchman pulitzer5/20/2023 “I do wish he were here, to receive the accolades,” Tamara Payne said of her father. Tamara Payne helped complete “The Dead Are Arising,” which has been praised highly by critics and last fall won a National Book Award. He began working on the Malcolm X book in 1990 and compiled more than 100 hours of interviews, including with family members of the late Black activist, before he died. The Pulitzer for “The Dead Are Arising” continues the posthumous acclaim for Les Payne, an award-winning Newsday journalist who died in 2018. Her previous honors include a National Book Award for “The Round House” and the National Book Critics Circle prize for “LaRose.” It was the first Pulitzer for Erdrich, who turned 67 this week and has been a published author for more than 40 years. Pulitzer judges called Erdrich’s novel “a majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination.” It’s something indigenous people also know about well. “I love this city and it hurts to know how deep the racism goes.
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