17 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 10 April 2017 by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride in at Columbia University in New York.
The announcement marks the 101st year of prizes.
The awards were announced in 21 categories and they include Letters, Drama & Music and Journalism.
The novel titled The Underground Railroad authored by Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction segment. In 2016, the novel had received the National Book Award of the US.
This marks the first time in more than 20 years that the same work won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for fiction.
The novel Underground Railroad is about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality.
More than 2,500 entries were submitted this year, competing for 21 prizes. Seven of the awards recognize fiction, drama, history, biographies, poetry, general nonfiction and music.
Complete list of winners:2017 Pulitzer prizes for Journalism
| CATEGORY | WINNERS |
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| Public Service | New York Daily News and ProPublica: |
| Breaking News Reporting | Staff of East Bay Times, Oakland, CA for relentless coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire, |
| Investigative Reporting | Eric Eyre of Charleston Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV |
| Explanatory Reporting | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald was awarded for the Panama Papers. |
| Local Reporting | The Salt Lake Tribune Staff |
| National Reporting | David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post
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| International Reporting | The New York Times Staff: was awarded for agenda-setting reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad. |
| Feature Writing | C. J. Chivers of The New York Times for a piece on a Marine’s postwar descent into violence. |
| Commentary | Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal |
| Criticism | Hilton Als of The New Yorker |
| Editorial Writing | Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times, Storm Lake, IA: |
| Editorial Cartooning | Jim Morin of Miami Herald was awarded for editorial cartoons. |
| Breaking News Photography | Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer was awarded for powerful storytelling through images published in The New York Times showing the callous disregard for human life in the Philippine. |
| Feature Photography | E. Jason Wambsgans of Chicago Tribune |
2017 Pulitzer prizes for Letters, Drama & Music
| CATEGORY | WINNERS |
|---|
| Fiction | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) |
| Drama | Sweat, by Lynn Nottage |
| History | Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon). |
| Biography or Autobiography | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar (Random House)sent of an embattled region. |
| Poetry | Olio, by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books) |
| General Nonfiction | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown) |
| Music | Angel’s Bone, by Du Yun
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Pulitzer Prize: Know More- The Prize established in 1917 is awarded for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
- It was established by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University in NY City.
- Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories of which 20 winners are awarded a certificate and a cash award.
- The winner in the public service category of the reporting/journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.
