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Such a nice building for undergrads to never go inside
The Journalism School announced the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize this afternoon. Today’s announcement marks the 101st year of the award. The prizes were awarded in the hall of the same name, as usual, and a livestream of the event is available on the Pulitzer website.
This year’s notable winners include Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for Fiction; David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post for National Reporting; Evicted by Matthew Desmond for General Nonfiction; and the Broadway play Sweat by Lynn Nottage for Drama. Also notable for Columbia is the award of the prize for Biography or Autobiography to Hisham Matar for his book The Return. Matar is currently on the faculty at Barnard; he teaches creative writing during the fall semester.
UPDATE, 10:45 pm: An earlier draft of this post stated that Prof. Hisham Matar currently teaches creative writing at Barnard; the post has been updated to clarify that he only teaches at Barnard during the fall semester. Also, the spelling of his name has been standardized throughout the post.
UPDATE, 4/11/17, 2:12 pm: The spelling of Prof. Matar’s name has been corrected once again.
The full list of award-winners is below.
Journalism:
- Public Service: The New York Daily News and ProPublica
- Breaking News Reporting: The East Bay Times
- Investigative Reporting: Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette Mail
- Explanatory Reporting: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy, the Miami Herald
- Local Reporting: The Salt Lake Tribune
- National Reporting: David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post
- International Reporting: The New York Times
- Feature Writing: C.J. Chivers, The New York Times
- Commentary: Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
- Criticism: Hilton Als, The New Yorker
- Editorial Writing: Art Cullen, The Storm Lake Times
- Editorial Cartooning: Jim Morin, The Miami Herald
- Breaking News Photography: Daniel Berehulak
- Feature Photography: E. Jason Wambsgans, The Chicago Tribune
Letters and Drama:
- Fiction: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Drama: Sweat by Lynn Nottage
- History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising in 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
- Biography or Autobiography: The Return by Hisham Matar
- Poetry: Olio by Tyehimba Jess
- General Non-Fiction: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Music: Angel’s Bone by Du Yun
The illustrious Pulitzer Hall via Journalism site
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@Anonymous Not one article in spec about the Pulitzer Prizes. Do they even go to this school?
@Anonymous Hisham Matar is not currently teaching creative writing at Barnard. He only teaches here in the fall.
@Anonymous Also, his name is spelled incorrectly. “Hisam”
@Betsy Ladyzhets Thank you for the clarifications. The post has been updated accordingly.
@Anonymous I’m sorry, I wasn’t really clear in my second comment…. I quoted the incorrect spelling appearing in the second paragraph of the blog post. His name is correctly spelled Hisham .
@Betsy Ladyzhets It’s been re-corrected. Thank you for your persistence!