AUSTRALIAN writer Geraldine Brooks' book "March", about the Civil War adventures of the father from Louisa Alcott's classic "Little Women", was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction last week. The prize for general non-fiction went to Caroline Elkins for "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya". Elkins, an associate professor at Harvard University, spent 10 years researching the torture of thousands of Kenyans in prison camps operated by the British government in the 1950s.
The Pulitzer board, including journalists, news executives, playwrights, critics and academics, also awards 15 journalism prizes, considered the most prestigious in the newspaper industry.
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