The Pulitzer Prize is given for the outstanding contribution in books, drama, music and Journalism. It was instituted 1917 on the provisions in the will of Hungarian- American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher under the administration of Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories and twenty category winners get a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. Find out the 2018 Winners List of Pulitzer Prize Winners in Books, Drama, Music and Journalism’ that consists of name of prize winner who did the extraordinary work in US journalism, drama, literature and other areas.
2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Books, Drama and Music)
Winner | Category of Awards |
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer | Fiction |
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. | General Non-Fiction |
Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok | Drama |
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis | History: Custer’s Trials |
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser | Biography |
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart | Poetry |
DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar | Music |
2018 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism
Winners | Category of Awards |
The New York Times and The New Yorker | Public Service |
Staff of the The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California | Breaking News Reporting |
Staff of The Washington Post | Investigative Reporting |
Jointly awarded to the staffs of The Arizona Republic and USA Today | Explanatory Reporting |
Sataff of The Cincinnati Enquirer | Local Reporting |
Jointly awarded to the staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post | National Reporting |
Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, and Manuel Mogato of Reuters | International Reporting |
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelancing for GQ | Feature Writing |
John Archibald, of the Alabama Media Group | Commentary |
Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register | Editorial Writing |
Jake Helpern and Michael Sloan, freelancing for The New York Times | Editorial Cartooning |
Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress | For breaking news photography |
photography staff of Reuters | Feature photography |
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