Castro’s Cuba setting for Pulitzer winner’s early play - Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz knows the question is coming. Even over the phone, one senses him waiting for the question he has fielded countless times since receiving the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his remarkable “Anna in the Tropics” in 2003.

How has the Pulitzer changed your life?

“It was an enormous amount of weight on my shoulders,” says the soft-spoken Cruz, who felt blessed, pressured and overwhelmed upon receiving the honor.”*

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