The Latest: Plight of refugees among themes of prize winners

Among the prize's arts categories, former refugee Viet Thanh Nguyen (VEE'-eht tahn gwihn) won the fiction prize Monday for "The Sympathizer" — an immigrant tale told in a "wry, confessional voice."

The New York Times and Reuters won for heart-wrenching breaking news photos of desperate refugees.

In one Times photo, a man with blood streaming down his face shields a child in a cloud of tear gas as migrants try to surge into Hungary from Serbia.

Lin-Manuel Miranda says he's "living in the highlight reel section" of his life after winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his musical "Hamilton."

Miranda joked that he had a "home-court advantage" because the prizes were announced at Columbia University, which is Alexander Hamilton's alma mater.

The album for "Hamilton" won a Grammy Award and became the highest-debuting cast recording on the Billboard Top 200 in over 50 years.

The Pulitzer board says he was honored for "a deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State."

Judges described the recording as "a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life."

The Tampa Bay Times also won the local reporting category for studying the effects of education in Pinellas County, Florida, when schools in poor neighborhoods were essentially desegregated and neglected.

The dazzling, exuberant musical by creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows, having already won a Grammy Award, a spot on the Billboard 200 charts and mentions on "Saturday Night Live."

The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for articles documenting the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand.

The project involved interviewing captives and tracking slav