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Author Bruce Norris joins Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as winner of prestigious prize
Clybourne Park, which won the Olivier award for best new play for its examination of race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, has been awarded this year's Pulitzer prize for drama.
Written by US playwright Bruce Norris, it was first performed in New York then had its UK premiere last year at London's Royal Court before transferring to the West End.
A jury made up of playwrights and critics described the play as "a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness".
According to the Pulitzer website, the award is endowed "for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life".
Norris, a longtime collaborator with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, joins a list of previous winners including Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. The award comes with a $10,000 (£6,132) cash prize.
The Pulitzer prize for fiction was won by Jennifer Egan's widely acclaimed novel A Visit From the Goon Squad which beat books by Jonathan Dee and Chang-rae Lee.
Judges called Egan's novel "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed".
Egan, who was longlisted for the Orange prize but missed out on the shortlist, told the Associated Press that the novel was inspired by Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
"His book of time is all about how the work of time is unpredictable and in some sense unfathomable," she said. "So there's no question that winning a prize like this feels unpredictable and unfathomable."
