American · b. 1973
Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "All the Light We Cannot See," a novel about a blind French girl and a German orphan whose paths converge during World War Two. The American author spent a decade crafting the book's interlocking chapters, building suspense through structure and intimacy through sensory detail. "Cloud Cuckoo Land" was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, spanning centuries to explore how stories survive catastrophe.