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Pulitzer Prize

American  

noun

  1. one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.

Pulitzer prize British  

noun

  1. one of a group of prizes established by Joseph Pulitzer and awarded yearly since 1917 for excellence in American journalism, literature, and music

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Both plays, making their L.A. premieres, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Viet Thanh Nguyen took the Pulitzer Prize in fiction Monday for his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” published by Grove Press.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Joe led a group of Journal reporters who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The series was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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