Pulitzer Prize 2021 Winners List: The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917.
Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017).The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.
Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Pulitzer Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified “four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships.” After his death on October 29, 1911, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917.
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Pulitzer Prize 2021 Winners List
JOURNALISM
Breaking News Reporting
Winner: Staff of Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
Investigative Reporting
Winner: Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe
Explanatory Reporting
Winners: Ed Yong of The Atlantic; Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters
Local Reporting
Winner: Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting
Winner: Staffs of the Marshall Project, AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago
International Reporting
Winner: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of Buzzfeed News, New York
Feature Writing
Winners: Nadja Drost, freelance contributor, The California Sunday Magazine; Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor of Runner’s World
Commentary
Winner: Michael Paul Williams of Richmond Times-Dispatch
Criticism
Winner: Wesley Morris of The New York Times
Editorial Writing
Winner: Robert Greene of Los Angeles Times
Breaking News Photography
Winner: Photography Staff of Associated Press
Feature Photography
Winner: Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press
Audio Reporting
Winner: Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio
Public Service
Winner: The New York Times
LETTERS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
Drama
Winner: The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
History
Winner: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
Biography
Winner: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton)
Fiction
Winner: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Poetry
Winner: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction
Winner: Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Music
Winner: Stride by Tania Leon (Peermusic Classical)
Category Wise Current Affairs
