No, unfortunately, Langston Hughes never won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. Author Arnold Rampersand was a 1989 Pulitzer Finalist for his biography of Hughes, however: The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World.
No, Langston Hughes did not win a Pulitzer Prize during his lifetime. Although he was a highly influential and respected poet, playwright, and novelist, he was never awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Actually a prize is not suppose to be won it suppose to be earned but if you speaking metaphoraically yes he did win the nobel peace prize.
he didnt
1960
Langston Hughes did not win a Nobel Prize. Hughes was an African American poet that won a Poetry prize in 1919.
Pulitzer Prize
1990
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition.
"The View from Castle Rock" did not win the Pulitzer Prize. It is a collection of short stories by Alice Munro that was first published in 2006, but it did not receive a Pulitzer Prize. Munro did, however, win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her body of work.
No, Doris Lessing did not win the Pulitzer Prize. However, she did receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her extensive body of work.
yes he did
William Inge won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play, Picnic.
Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to readers as Dr. Seuss, won a Special Citation (not a Pulitzer Prize) from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1984.
Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Gwendolyn Brooks won a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Annie Allen, in 1950.
In 1978, James Alan McPherson became the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, Elbow Room.The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized Alex Haley with a Special Citation the year before (1977) for his historical fiction, Roots, but he didn't actually win a Pulitzer Prize.