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.)
SPECIAL CITATION
Bob Dylan
Posted on April 8, 2008
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