Prestigious Pulitzer Prize Award Winners - 2023

What is the Pulitzer Prize?

The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award administrated by Columbia University.

Recognizing achievements in the fields such as newspaper, online journalism, magazine, literature, and musical compositions in the United States of America. It was established in 1917 by a renowned newspaper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer.

Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-two categories. Winners get US$ 15,000 as an award with a certificate (increased from US$ 10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service sector is given a Gold Medal as a token of appreciation.

Pulitzer Prizes are among the most anticipated and prestigious awards that writers, journalists, artists, novelists, etc... aim to bag.

The Winners of the Pulitzer Prizes 2023

Pulitzer Prize 2023: Fiction

Demon Copperhead, authored by Barbara Kingsolver [Harper]

A fine recasting of "David Copperfield," narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise and steady voice relates his endures with moral collapse, addictions, poverty, institutional failures, and his actions to Conquer them.

Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

A fascinating novel set in ancient America that explores families, ambition, and wealth through related narratives rendering, in different literary styles, an intricate contemplation of love and power in a country ruled by capitalism.

Finalists:

• The Immoral King Rao, By Vuhini Vara (W. W Norton and Co.)

Pulitzer Prize 2023 : Drama

English, written by Sanaz Toossi

A pretty powerful play about four Iranian adults learning for an English Language Exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separation and travel restrictions drive them to learn new-language that may transform their identities and also represent a new life.

Finalists

• On Sugarland, written by Aleshea Harris
• The Far Country, by Lloyd Suh

Pulitzer Prize 2023 : General Non-fiction

His Name is George Floyd: The One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, written by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking).

A likable, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with a police officer in 2020 sparkling, an international movement for social-change, yet whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown. (Promoted by the Board from the Biography category.)

Finalists:

• Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern,
• Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David Geroge Haskell (Viking)
• Under the Skin: Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)

Pulitzer Prize 2023 - Music

Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

It was premiered on May-27-2022, at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., an innovative and compelling opera about enslaved people brought to North America from Muslim countries, a musical work that represents Africans and African-American Traditions, expanding operatic form while conveying the humanity of those doomed to bondage.

Finalists:

• Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), by Tyshawn Sorey
• Perspective, by Jerrilynn Patton

How did the Pulitzer Prize Start?

Newspaper publisher Joshper Pulitzer funds Columbia University to start a journalism school and introduce Pulitzer Prize. It is allocating $250,000 to the prize and scholarship. Four awards in letters and four awards in journalism, four in drama, four in traveling, and one in education scholarships.

After Pulitzer's Death on October 29, 1911, the first Pulitzer Prize was held on June 4th 1917.

The awards covered journalism, letters, art, and fiction categories. United States of America-based newspaper recognises magazines and news organisations that publish regularly are eligible for prizes under the journalism category. The photography category continues to restrict still images.

In December 2008, for the first time, the announcement of the content present online-only news sources will also get consideration for the prize.

Conclusion

Joseph Pulitzer, a famous editor, initiated Pulitzer Prize to recognize eminent journalists. Winners get prize rewards -prize money and certificates.

With time the prize covers many categories, including journalism, photography, books, drama, music, etc.

Joseph Pulitzer funded Columbian University to start a Journalism university and started "Pulitzer Prize" to appreciate eminent journalists, novelists, drama artists, and musicians.

Pulitzer Prize today has become a prestigious award and has gained popularity across the globe. Many artists, writers, and journalists work hard to achieve and get the recognition of the Pulitzer Prize.

With such expanding global recognition and appreciation, many skilled and budding individuals can flourish in their domains and connect with their fans and followers worldwide.

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