The Pulitzer Prize announced the 2023 laureates

Columbia University in New York has announced the winners of the Pulitzer Prize. This was reported on the prize’s website.

In the Fiction category, the prize went to Hernan Diaz for his novel “Trust” (Riverhead Books) and to Barbara Kingsolver for her book “Demon Copperhead” (Harper).

Diaz’s first novel, “In the Distance”, was included in the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2017 list and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Prize and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

In the General Nonfiction category, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa won for their book “His Name is George Floyd” (Viking).

In the Poetry nomination, the award went to Carl Phillips with his collection “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

In the Biography category, Beverly Gage won with her novel “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” (Viking).

In the History category, the best book became “Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power,” by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books).

In the Memoir or Autobiography category, the award went to Hua Hsu for his book, “Stay True” (Doubleday).

The award in two nominations from Journalism category — for Public Service and Breaking News Photography — went to the Associated Press for photos from Mariupol besieged by Russian troops by Ukrainian journalists Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenkoo, as well as French correspondent Lori Hinnant.

“For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.”

In addition, The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for its coverage of the war in Ukraine, which involved Ukrainian journalist Stas Kozliuk as a fixer.

The award was presented “for their unflinching coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha and the Russian unit responsible for the killings.”

The full list of winners is available on the official website of the award.

The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature, journalism, music and theater in the United States, founded by the publisher of the “yellow press” Joseph Pulitzer. Since 1917, the prize has been awarded annually on the first Monday of May by the trustees of Columbia University in New York.

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