Pulitzer Prize: Quiara Alegria Hudes wins coveted award for drama for her play about Iraq War veteran inspired by her cousin | NY Daily News

By / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Quiara Alegria Hudes’s play “Water by the Spoonful” has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The play, which premiered in November at Hartford Stage, concerns a returning Iraq war veteran battling demons in his hometown of Philadelphia.

“It’s about addiction and recovery and family,” said Hudes, 34, who lives in the Washington Heights area of New York City. “It’s a highly fictionalized story based on a cousin of mine. He was a Marine in Iraq.”

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One Response to “Pulitzer Prize: Quiara Alegria Hudes wins coveted award for drama for her play about Iraq War veteran inspired by her cousin | NY Daily News”

  1. RoughAcres says:
    April 17, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    I am blown away… another hometown artist is recognized!!!!! Congratulations to Quiara Alegria Hudes, and to her family.

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