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News Articles: Pulitzer Prize

Percival Everett has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel <em>James.</em>

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  • Arts & Life

'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim and
  • Andrew Limbong
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe, center, is congratulated Monday by staff sports columnist Rick Cleveland, right, after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, as her mother, Bethel Wolfe, left, observes, at a celebration in Jackson, Miss. Wolfe was honored for her reporting on a $77 million welfare scandal, the largest embezzlement of federal funds in Mississippi's history.

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  • Arts & Life

Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Los Angeles artist Kristina Wong in <a href="https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/kirk-douglas-theatre/2022-23/kristina-wong-sweatshop-overlord/"><em>Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord</em></a>, a co-production with East West Players.

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  • Theater

From elected official to 'Sweatshop Overlord,' this performer takes on unlikely roles

Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.

March 12, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Winfred Rembert

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Georgia's latest Pulitzer Prize winner awarded posthumously

The late Winfred Rembert rose from humble beginnings in Cuthbert, Ga. to critical acclaim.

May 26, 2022
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Journalists conduct interviews on the doorstep of an hotel on Maidan Square on March 1, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Pulitzer Prize Board is honoring the courage and commitment of Ukranian journalists.

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  • Media

Ukranian journalists win a Pulitzer citation for their courage and persistence

At least seven journalists have been killed while covering the war in Ukraine, while many face shelling, shooting and detention on the job. They were recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday.

May 10, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.

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'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.

May 09, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Jaquel Spivey performs as Usher in <em>A Strange Loop</em> at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C.

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  • Theater

A Pulitzer winner at the worst possible time, 'A Strange Loop' is Broadway-bound

Michael R. Jackson put 20 years into polishing his audacious, autobiographical musical, and then theaters went dark. Now, 'A Strange Loop' is building buzz on its way to New York City.

December 11, 2021
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A police body camera image shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier (third from right filming) as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was recorded pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck in Minneapolis.

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  • National

Darnella Frazier, Who Filmed George Floyd's Murder, Wins An Honorary Pulitzer

Committee officials who give out the prestigious prize in journalism and the arts said Frazier's recording highlighted "the crucial role of citizens in journalists' quests for truth and justice."

June 11, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Emory University professor and poet Jericho Brown is now the receipient of literature's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize.

Georgia Poet, Emory Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize

An Emory University professor and poet is now the recipient of literature's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize.

May 05, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah Rose

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  • News

On Second Thought For Friday, July 12, 2019

Alice Walker, the author of the The Color Purple , turns 75 this Saturday. The Georgia Writers Museum, a nonprofit organization and exhibit space that...

July 12, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • La'Raven Taylor ,
  • and 5 more
 Alice Walker stands in front of a picture of herself from 1974 as she tours her archives at Emory University, in Atlanta.

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  • Author Interviews

Author Alice Walker Honored In Hometown Of Eatonton

The town of Eatonton, Georgia, will honor one of its own this weekend: prolific poet, Pulitzer prize winning novelist and activist Alice Walker. The...

July 12, 2019
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott
This week, Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." became the first non-jazz, non-classical winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music.

The Breakroom: Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, Starbucks Arrests And #Beychella

This week we talked about mandatory gun owernship laws, Vidalia onions and the Pulitzer Prize — and that doesn't even include the week's news. On Second...

April 20, 2018
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By:
  • Fenly Foxen and
  • Tony Harris

On Second Thought For Thursday, April 19, 2018

This year's Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced Tuesday . We listened back to interviews with four past and present honorees. Renee...

April 19, 2018
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  • Sean Powers ,
  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • and 6 more

On Second Thought For Tuesday, March 27, 2018

A teenager in Thomasville, Georgia is facing charges for allegedly stealing a gun from a car earlier in March. We've seen this problem across the state....

March 27, 2018
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  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • Sean Powers ,
  • and 6 more
Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff in "Children of a Lesser God."

Tony-Award Winning Director Kenny Leon On His “Children Of A Lesser God” Revival

On this edition of “Two Way Street,” we’re talking to Tony-award winning director, Kenny Leon , about his Broadway revival of the play, “ Children of a...

March 22, 2018
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  • Bill Nigut
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