2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Columbia University has announced the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here are the winnners.

JOURNALISM

Public Service -- The Washington Post

Breaking News Reporting -- The Washington Post Staff

Investigative Reporting -- Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune Staff

Explanatory Reporting -- Amy Harmon of The New York Times

Local Reporting -- David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

National Reporting -- Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

International Reporting -- Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

Feature Writing -- Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

Commentary -- Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post

Criticism -- Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

Editorial Writing -- No Award

Editorial Cartooning -- Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily

Breaking News Photography -- Adrees Latif of Reuters

Feature Photography -- Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor

LETTERS AND DRAMA

Fiction -- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Drama -- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

History -- What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

Biography -- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

Poetry -- Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

General Nonfiction -- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC

"The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang, premiered October 25, 2007 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. (G. Schirmer, Inc.)

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