Your 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize nominations were just announced. The big winner was the Washington Post, which won six awards for Public Service, Breaking News Reporting, National Reporting, International Reporting, Feature Writing and Commentary. The New York Times took home two, while the Los Angeles Times, recovering from the Tupac Shakur fiasco, was shut out. Bob Dylan won a Special Citation.

Full list after the jump.

PULITZER PRIZES 2008
Columbia University today announced the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes,
awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
JOURNALISM
Public Service –
The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting –
The Washington Post Staff
Investigative Reporting –
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times
and
The Chicago Tribune Staff
Explanatory Reporting –
Amy Harmon of The New York Times
Local Reporting –
David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
National Reporting –
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
International Reporting –
Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
Feature Writing –
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
Commentary –
Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post
Criticism –
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing –
No Award
Editorial Cartooning –
Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily
Breaking News Photography –
Adrees Latif of Reuters
Feature Photography –
Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor
LETTERS AND DRAMA
Fiction –
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead Books)
Drama –
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
History –
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
Biography –
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
Poetry –
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
and
Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
General Nonfiction –
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)
MUSIC
The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang, premiered October 25, 2007 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. (G. Schirmer, Inc.)
SPECIAL CITATION
Bob Dylan

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