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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.

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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.

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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.

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