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Pulitzer prize

May 2024

  • Views her work as defying a state that condones a war against women ... Cristina Rivera Garza.

    ‘The only healing will be through justice’: Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico

    Through writing about her sister Liliana’s murder 30 years ago, the author found a community of those whose female friends and family members had also been killed. Yet the authorities still fail to act
  • Two women, one carrying a child, wade through water with their belongings

    Pulitzer prize winner for feature photography 2024 – in pictures

    Associated Press photographers have been awarded a Pulitzer prize for their work chronicling the arduous journey of migrants and asylum seekers from central and South America to the US
  • A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographers Ivan Valencia, Eduardo Verdugo, Felix Marquez, Marco Ugarte Fernando Llano, Eric Gay, Gregory Bull and Christian Chavez that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

    Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times

    Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza war

April 2024

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

    Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again

March 2024

  • A black and white image of Irish emigrants on board a boat

    ‘Longing for home’: letters of Irish emigrants to US reveal 400 years of trials and triumphs

    A collection of more than 7,000 letters will form a publicly accessible digital archive that offers a window to the past

December 2023

  • Hernan Diaz

    The books of my life
    Hernan Diaz: ‘The Tintin books were problematic but they were also gorgeous and gripping’

    The Pulitzer-winning novelist on Tintin, Jorge Luis Borges and a lifetime of changing tastes

October 2023

  • Zoe Williams

    You know that book everyone raves about? Just give in and read it!

    Zoe Williams
    There’s no virtue in avoiding something simply because it’s popular. And yes, it has taken me a year to tackle the latest Barbara Kingsolver, writes Zoe Williams

September 2023

  • The new criteria will begin with the 2025 award cycle, which begins in the spring of 2024.

    Pulitzer prizes expand eligibility requirements to include non-US citizens

    Board will now consider permanent residents of the US and those who have made it their ‘longtime primary home’

May 2023

  • A man looks at buildings destroyed during Russian attacks on Borodyanka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

    Pulitzer 2023 winners include Hernan Diaz, New York Times and AP

    This year’s major journalism winners cover the Russian invasion of Ukraine and abortion restrictions

March 2023

  • A cadre of online influencers now shape the far-right and could determine Republican primary results.

    ‘It’s all about trolling’: how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative

    With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism

September 2022

  • Annie Proulx, author. for saturday review

    Book of the day
    Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx review – where have all our wetlands gone?

  • Andrew Sean Greer

    Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer review – diminishing returns

August 2022

  • David McCullough pictured with art by George Catlin, one of the artists featured in his book The Greater Journey, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, 2011.

    David McCullough obituary

    Bestselling historian who put the lives and experience of the people who built the US at the heart of his work

July 2022

  • Sanna Irshad Mattoo.

    India bars Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist from flying to France

    Sanna Irshad Mattoo says she was stopped by immigration officials at Delhi airport despite holding a valid visa

May 2022

  • The Washington Post logo is seen outside its headquarters.

    Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for Capitol attack coverage

    Paper beat out two other finalists, the New York Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

December 2021

  • Aria Mia Lobreti was chosen from thousands of hopefuls who auditioned for the role in the wartime epic.

    Untrained blind student lands starring role in Netflix second world war epic

    Disability rights groups applaud casting of Aria Mia Loberti in All the Light We Cannot See

October 2021

  • Both news organisations have stood by stories which unearthed detailed revelations about Russian election interference and the Trump administration’s efforts to interfere in investigations.

    Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting

    2018 award was shared by New York Times and Washington Post for exposing interference and links between Trump and Moscow

June 2020

  • Demonstrators shout slogans during a march in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 23, 2014 to protest the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. More than 100 protesters marched peacefully through St Louis on November 23, stepping up pressure on a grand jury to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager. Police stepped up security and erected barricades bracing for the worst with a grand jury to decide whether to indict the police officer. Brown was shot at least six times by police officer Darren Wilson in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on August 9, inflaming racial tensions and sparking weeks of protests, some violent. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Incendiary Art: Ferguson, 2014 by Patricia Smith

  • Jericho Brown.

    Bullet Points by Jericho Brown – poem

May 2020

  • GERMANY-LITERATURE-FRANKFURT-FAIR<br>US author Colson Whitehead is pictured at the Frankfurt book fair 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on October 19, 2019. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images)

    Colson Whitehead and This American Life among Pulitzer 2020 winners

    Author wins fiction prize for The Nickel Boys while the first ever prize for audio reporting goes to an episode of the hit podcast
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