Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn.” won the Pulitzer Prize for music. 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart spans half a century of this revolutionary poet’s career. #14 is History winner for 1995 not Non Fiction #43 is for Biography in 2011 not NF #47 is not a Pulitzer prize winner of any type #53 is a finalist in in NF 2010, not a winner These four items have been checked against the Pulitzer website I am going to add the winners for 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2016 as they are not on the list. In the arts, prizes were awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music. About. SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEW FROM INDIA NEWSLETTER. Prize Winners. It has helped us keep apace with events and happenings. Honoring Excellence in Journalism and the Arts. The awards for Letters include Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, History, and Fiction. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. It was the first non-classical or jazz work to win the award. It has been presented since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year, that is not eligible for consideration in another category. The awards for Letters include Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, History, and Fiction. Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart spans half a century of this revolutionary poet’s career. Thank you for signing up! Fraser conjures the epic tale of this house-hold name’s life, portraying her grit and the triumph of her pioneer spirit. The 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories were announced on Monday, April 16 at 3 p.m. Eastern. The awards for Letters include, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Toms River A Story of Science & Salvation, Devil in the Grove Thurgood Marshall the Groveland Boys & the Dawn of a New America, Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Years of Extermination Nazi Germany & the Jews 1939 1945, Looming Tower Al Qaeda & the Road to 9 11, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA Afghanistan & Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10 2001, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Embracing Defeat Japan in the Wake of World War II, Guns Germs & Steel The Fates of Human Societies, Ashes to Ashes Americas Hundred Year Cigarette War the Public Health & the Unabashed Trium PH of Philip Morris, Haunted Land Facing Europes Ghosts After Communism, Beak of the Finch a Story of Evolution in Our Time, Lenins Tomb The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Lincoln At Gettysburg The Words That Remade America, Prize The Epic Quest For Oil Money & Power, Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann & America in Vietnam, Making of the Atomic Bomb 25th Anniversary Edition, Arab & Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Common Ground A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, Move Your Shadow South Africa Black & White, Social Transformation of American Medicine, Dragons Of Eden Speculations On The Evolution Of Human Intelligence, Beautiful Swimmers Watermen Crabs & the Chesapeake Bay, Fire in the Lake The Vietnamese & the Americans in Vietnam, Children of Crisis Selections from the Pulitzer Prize Winning Five Volume Children of Crisis Series, Stilwell & the American Experience in China 1911 45. The Pulitzer Prize-winning books for 2018 have been announced. Join the conversation in the comments. Barbara Tuchman and E.O. by Anne Boyer. The drama prize went to Martyna Majok for “Cost of Living,” Carolyn Fraser’s work on author Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Prairie Fires,” won for biography. Editorial cartooning prize went to Jake Halpern, freelance writer, and Michael Sloan, freelance cartoonist, The New York Times, Drama, biography, non-fiction, history, poetry. The prizes encompassed, among other topics, stories of abuse in the workplace; construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; and a … The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, won the breaking news award for coverage of the wildfires that swept through California’s wine country last fall. Two winning works were also finalists in the Pulitzer Prize for History: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1989) and Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1993). News. The Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism and commentary. Each and every one of them should now be on your TBR list if you haven’t read them already. The Hindu Explains | What are swing States in U.S. polls? April 15, 2019 By Book Marks. Give our latest book for cross-stitchers, Do something different at home tonight with a, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network took the explanatory reporting prize for their reporting on U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. Subscribe to The Hindu now and get unlimited access. The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2017 calendar year. A string of stories in the two newspapers shined light on connections between Russian officials and Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. It’s a support for truth and fairness in journalism. Watch | How is the U.S. President elected? A Cincinnati newspaper’s weeklong examination of the many ways the heroin crisis is impacting its community won the Pulitzer for local reporting. Wilson have won two Nonfiction prizes each. A photographer in Charlottesville, Virginia, won a Pulitzer for capturing the moment a car struck several people protesting against a white nationalist rally. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Painting a sweeping portrait from the age of conquistadors to the environmental perils of the present day, Davis pays homage to a body of water that touches five southern states and millions of lives. The staff of The Washington Post gather in their news room after winning two pulitzer prizes on Monday, in Washington. Events. Reuters won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for international reporting and photography. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter at GQ magazine was awarded the Pulitzer for feature writing; Jerry Saltz of New York magazine won for criticism; Andie Dominick of The Des Moines Register won for editorial writing.