This undated photo provided by the Pulitzer Prize Board shows Adam Johnson, who was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, announced in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Pulitzer Prize Board)
This undated photo provided by the Pulitzer Prize Board shows Adam Johnson, who was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, announced in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Pulitzer Prize Board)
This undated photo provided by the Pulitzer Prize Board shows Ayad Akhtar, who was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work "Disgraced", announced in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Pulitzer Prize Board)
This book cover image released by Random House shows Frank Logevall, author of "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam." Logevall won a Pulitzer Prize in the Arts category for history on April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Random House, Lindsay France)
This undated photo provided by Afred A. Knopf shows Sharon Olds, who was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on Monday, April 15, 2013, for her work "Stag's Leap." (AP Photo/Alfred A. Knopf, Michael Lionstar)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a year after no fiction award was given.
Pulitzer judges on Monday praised Johnson's book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart." It was the third book by the 45-year-old Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
Booksellers and publishers had been surprised and angered in 2012 when Pulitzer officials decided not to give a fiction prize, which usually results in a quick and sustained boost in sales.
Also Monday, Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" won for drama and Fredrik Logevall's "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam," for history. The biography winner was Tom Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo." Gilbert King's "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America" won for general nonfiction and Sharon Olds' "Stag's Leap" for poetry.
For music, the winner was Caroline Shaw's "Partita for 8 Voices."
Some of the acclaimed books of 2012 were bypassed, including Robert Caro's latest Lyndon Johnson biography, "The Passage of Power"; and Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," a finalist in the general nonfiction category and winner of the National Book Award.
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