The Hours (novel)

The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway. Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning, 2002, eponymous film and a 2022 opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and an English-language libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel and its 2002 film adaptation, both with the same title.