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Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were published on 15 Journalism categories and seven Book, Drama and Music categories. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were first awarded in 1917 and are regarded as the field’s most prestigious honour in the U.S.

Below is the list of winners in Journalism:

Breaking News Reporting	The staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
Investigative Reporting	Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times
Explanatory Reporting	The staff of The Washington Post
Local Reporting	The staff of The Baltimore Sun
National Reporting	T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica; Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times
International Reporting	Staff of The New York Times
Feature Writing	Ben Taub of The New Yorker
Commentary	Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times
Criticism	Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times
Editorial Writing	Jeffery Gerritt of the Palestine (Tx.) Herald Press
Editorial Cartooning	Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker

Winners in Letters, Drama and Music:

Drama: A Strange Loop, by Michael R. Jackson
History: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)
Biography: Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser (Ecco)
Poetry: The Tradition, by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, by Anne Boyer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)
Music: The Central Park Five, by Anthony Davis
Fiction: The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)