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Pulitzer Prize: The fiction winners

In 2011, Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "A Visit From the Goon Squad."

In 2011, Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “A Visit From the Goon Squad.”  (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

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The Pulitzer Prize in fiction is often awarded to a writer whose work deserves greater exposure. Then again, in 2012 the committee declined to give the prize to anyone -- and if that implies that no books that year were deserving, well, that wouldn’t be right. Here are recent Pulitzer Prize winners; the 2013 award is to be announced April 15.

Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008 for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”

  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Road” in 2007.  (Alfred A. Knopf / Associated Press)

Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his novel “Middlesex.”  (Mel Evans / Associated Press)

Richard Russo

Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel “Empire Falls.”  (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

Jhumpa Lahiri

Author Jhumpa Lahiri at her writing desk hours after learning that she won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for “Interpreter of Maladies,” her debut short story collection.  (Suzanne Plunkett / Associated Press)

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