The Pulitzer Prize for fiction in the year 2013 has been announced for the book ‘the Orphan Master’s Son’ authored by Adam Johnson. It is a 2012 novel by American author Adam Johnson. It deals withintertwined themes of propaganda, identity and state power in North Korea. The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.