Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The award, announced Monday, went to Doerr’s bestselling World War II novel that tells the parallel stories of a blind French girl and a young German soldier.

Finalists included Richard Ford’s “Let Me Be Frank with You,” Laila Lalami’s “The Moor’s Account” and Joyce Carol Oates’ “Lovely, Dark, Deep.”