The Shipping News
American novelist, born 1935. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1993.
The Shipping News is a 1993 novel by E. Annie Proulx. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994.
In family saga
On 3 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
The Novel Index earns a small commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. It never affects our rankings. More about how we earn.
At a glance
- Author
- E. Annie Proulx
- First published
- 1993
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction winner, 1993
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 1994
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Rural life, Family saga
Is The Shipping News worth reading?
3 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1993) | Winner | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1994) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Shipping News
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (1993), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 1993)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781857021684
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Shipping News
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 10% 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