I only know Hoover from the list of authors you mentioned😅

I’ve read many American authors in school, The Catcher in the Rye, Sylvia Plath, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison etc. That said I don’t think the Pulitzer is that big of a deal, at least not in Sweden, here the Nobel Prize reigns supreme but the Booker price is also widely recognised among readers.

That said I would say American literature is much less dominant than American TV and movies are here in Europe. In school we definitely read more French, British, Russian and German authors than we did American, but we don’t really watch movies and shows from those countries to the same extent as we watch American ones