1990

Dogeaters

By Jessica Hagedorn

Original Publisher: Pantheon

Current Publisher: Theater Communications Group

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Felipe Alfau for Chromos
• Elena Castedo for Paradise
• Jessica Hagedorn for Dogeaters
• Joyce Carol Oates for Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 

Fiction Winner That Year: Charles Johnson for Middle Passage

Fiction Judges That Year: William Gass, Phillip Lopate, Terry McMillan, Paul West

The Year in Literature:

• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for literature. 

More Information:

• Dogeaters is a novel about the Philippines during the Marcos reign.
• Hagedorn adapted Dogeaters for the stage as a play of the same title.