Pulitzer Prize

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

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

Example Sentences

His recording “In for a Penny, In for a Pound,” with Zooid, earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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The reporting won him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, making him the first freelancer ever to win in that category.

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Vaill had a book contract in hand before Hamilton even got to Broadway, where it became the Pulitzer Prize–winning blockbuster it has been for the past 10 years.

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“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classic 1960 novel about racism in a small Southern town, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, became a staple of high school reading lists and turned its author into one of American literature’s most revered figures.

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He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997.

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