Pulitzer Prize 2013
The winners of the 97th Pulitzer Prize were announced on April 15, 2013 .
There were 21 winners in 21 categories and no special award. David Barstow received the award for the third time, also in 2009 for “Investigative Journalism” and in 2004 for “Service to the Public”.
Categories and award winners
category | Category | Prize winners and publishers (in italics) | |
---|---|---|---|
journalism | Journalism | ||
Public service | Public service | Sun Sentinel , Fort Lauderdale | |
Current reporting | Breaking news reporting | Employee of The Denver Post | |
Investigative journalism | Investigative reporting | David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of The New York Times | |
Background reporting | Explanatory reporting | Employee of The New York Times | |
Local coverage | Local reporting | Brad Schrade , Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt for the Star Tribune , Minneapolis | |
Domestic reporting | National reporting | Lisa Song , Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer from InsideClimate News , Brooklyn, NY | |
Foreign reporting | International reporting | David Barboza of The New York Times | |
Feature writing | Feature writing | John Branch of The New York Times | |
comment | Commentary | Bret Stephens from The Wall Street Journal | |
criticism | Criticism | Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post | |
editorial | Editorial writing | Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times | |
cartoon | Editorial cartooning | Steve Sack of the Star Tribune , Minneapolis | |
Current photo coverage | Breaking News Photography | Rodrigo Abd , Manu Brabo , Narciso Contreras , Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen from the Associated Press | |
Feature photo coverage | Feature Photography | Javier Manzano , freelance photographer | |
Literature, theater and music | Letters, Drama & Music | ||
Fiction | Fiction | Adam Johnson with "The orphan master's son" (German: "The robbed life of the orphan Jun Do") at Random House | |
theatre | drama | Ayad Akhtar with "Disgraced" | |
history | History | Fredrik Logevall with "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam" at Random House | |
Biography or autobiography | Biography or Autobiography | Tom Reiss with "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo" at Crown | |
poetry | Poetry | Sharon Olds with “Stag's Leap” at Alfred A. Knopf | |
Non-fiction | General non-fiction | Gilbert King with " Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys " at Harper | |
music | Music | Caroline Shaw with “Partita for 8 Voices” on New Amsterdam Records | |
Special Price | Special Awards and Citations | ||
Special Price | Special Citations | not forgiven |
jury
The jury consisted of the following 5 women and 14 men:
- Danielle Allen , Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
- Randell Beck , President and Publisher, Argus Leader Media
- Robert Blau , Senior Editor, Bloomberg News
- Lee C. Bollinger , President, Columbia University
- Steve Coll , Associate Writer, The New Yorker
- Joyce Dehli , Vice President, Lee Enterprises
- Junot Díaz , author and professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stephen Engelberg , Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica
- Thomas L. Friedman , columnist, The New York Times
- Paul Gigot , Editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Sig Gissler , Columbia Journalism School
- Steven Hahn , Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Quiara Alegria Hudes , playwright
- Nicholas Lemann , dean at Columbia University
- Aminda Marques Gonzalez , Vice President and Editor, The Miami Herald
- Gregory L. Moore , editor, The Denver Post
- Eugene Robinson , columnist and editor, The Washington Post
- Paul Tash , CEO, Tampa Bay Times
- Keven Ann Willey , Vice President and Editor, The Dallas Morning News
Web links
- 2013 Pulitzer Prize Fact Sheet , facts about the Pulitzer Prize at www.pulitzer.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize winners and finalists from 2013 on www.pulitzer.org (English)
- ↑ Members of the jury from 2013 on www.pulitzer.org (English)