Full list: 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners
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The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners. Click here to read the Pulitzer citations for each winner’s work.
JOURNALISM
Public service – Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel
Breaking news reporting – Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Investigative reporting – Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
Explanatory reporting – David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times
Local reporting – Staff of the Advocate
National reporting – Staff of the Wall Street Journal
International reporting – Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of The Associated Press, and the staff of Reuters
Feature writing – Hannah Dreier of ProPublica
Commentary – Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Criticism – Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
Editorial writing – Brent Staples of The New York Times
Editorial cartooning – Darrin Bell, a freelancer cartoonist
Breaking news photography – Photography staff of Reuters
Feature photography – Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post
Special citation – Staff of the Capital Gazette, Annapolis, Md.
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BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
Fiction – “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
Drama – “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury
History – “Frederick Douglass” by David W. Blight
Biography or autobiography – “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Poetry – “Be With” by Forrest Gander
General nonfiction – “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold
Music – “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
Special citation – Aretha Franklin