CLYBOURNE PARK Wins 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Bruce Norris' CLYBOURNE PARK has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, honoring a distinguished play by an American author. Other 2011 finalists were: "Detroit" by Lisa D'Amour, and "A Free Man of Color" by John Guare. 

Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris written in response to Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun portraying fictional events set before and after the play and loosely based on real life events. The premiere took place in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York. The play received its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London directed by Dominic Cooke. The play "applies a modern twist to the issues of race and housing and aspirations for a better life."

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. 

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation.