Q.1310

The Dutch artist Carel Fabritius was a student of the painter Rembrandt. One of his most famous paintings was "The Goldfinch" in 1654. This painting and title came back into artistic awareness in April 2014 after being prominently featured in a 2013 book. How did it make the news, which also involved three sections of poetry by an Indian-born American?

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The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for Donna Tartt); the poetry Pulitzer was won by Vijay Sheshadri for a collection called "3 Sections" .Here's more on the book and the artist.

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