Pulitzer Prize
noun
Pu·lit·zer Prize
ˈpu̇-lət-sər- 
ˈpyü-
: any of various annual prizes (as for outstanding literary or journalistic achievement) established by the will of Joseph Pulitzer
called also Pulitzer
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His stories were key in winning a Miami Herald reporting team the Pulitzer Prize for national news coverage in 1987.
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Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024
Lamar is a music star whose accolades include winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music, an Emmy Award and 17 Grammys.
April 11, 11:20 a.m.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
The first is that Chan-wook and McKellar have not abandoned the sense of humor that won the book the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
Released last month, the thumping diss track hit the Billboard Hot 100 in a flash but went dynamite across X, Instagram, and TikTok thanks to a surprise verse from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton rapper who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 and who is considered by many to be the best rapper alive today.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
This is the opening of Doubt, the 2005 play by John Patrick Shanley, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 31 Mar. 2024
David John Chávez is chair of the American Theatre Critics Association and a two-time juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (‘22-‘23); @davidjchavez.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson This moving epistolary novel from 2005 earned Robinson the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and inspired three of the author’s subsequent novels.
—Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Rukmini Callimachi is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024
Lamar is a music star whose accolades include winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music, an Emmy Award and 17 Grammys.
April 11, 11:20 a.m.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
The first is that Chan-wook and McKellar have not abandoned the sense of humor that won the book the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
Released last month, the thumping diss track hit the Billboard Hot 100 in a flash but went dynamite across X, Instagram, and TikTok thanks to a surprise verse from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton rapper who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 and who is considered by many to be the best rapper alive today.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
This is the opening of Doubt, the 2005 play by John Patrick Shanley, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 31 Mar. 2024
David John Chávez is chair of the American Theatre Critics Association and a two-time juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (‘22-‘23); @davidjchavez.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson This moving epistolary novel from 2005 earned Robinson the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and inspired three of the author’s subsequent novels.
—Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Rukmini Callimachi is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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