Olive Kitteridge
American novelist, born 1956. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009.
Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel in stories by Elizabeth Strout. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009.
On 2 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Elizabeth Strout
- First published
- 2008
- Length
- 352 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 2009
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Rural life, Psychological
Is Olive Kitteridge worth reading?
2 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 2009) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 74 | See the list |
Best edition of Olive Kitteridge
The edition we link to is the Scribner UK paperback (2024), 352 pages.
- Publisher
- Scribner UK (paperback, 2024)
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781398532786
How critics, prizes and readers rate Olive Kitteridge
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 25% of the points available on prize lists, against 14% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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