The Death of Imagination

There must be some awards which chime with my own ideas, but certainly there seems to be something about the Pulitzer criteria in particular which goes directly against what I think makes good writing, to the extent that I'm starting to see it more as a warning than a recommendation. In 2010 I conincidentally read three Pulitzer-winners in a row -- Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, a history of the CIA by Pulitzer-winner Tim Weiner, and....I forget the third. But I hated them all, and more to the point I just thought the writing was so technically bad that it removed all my confidence in the judges' standards.