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NEW YORK -- Stories of oppression both home and abroad were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes Monday. Edward P. Jones won the fiction prize for "The Known World," a novel about a black slave owner. In history, the winner was Steven Hahn for "A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration." Anne Applebaum's "Gulag," a history of the brutal Soviet labor camps, won for general nonfiction, while another book about the Soviet Union, William Taubman's "Khrushchev," was cited for biography.