Important : Complete List of 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Honoring achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition for the year 2015, the Pulitzer Prizes 2016 were recently awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board. This year's announcement marked the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzers, which began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. This year, the Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on abuse in the seafood industry that helped free 2,000 slave labourers, and Reuters and The New York Times shared the breaking news photography award for images of the European refugee crisis. Here are some important names of Pulitzer Prize 2016 winners list. Happy Reading :)

Pulitzer Prize 2016 Winners List

• Books, Drama and Music
• Fiction : The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
• Drama : Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
• History : Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles.
• Biography : Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan,.
• Poetry : Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian.
• Music : In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill.
• Journalism
• Public Service : Associated Press.
• Breaking News Reporting : Los Angeles Times Staff.
• Investigative Reporting : Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
  
• Explanatory Reporting : Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project.
• Local Reporting : Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of the Tampa Bay Times.
• National Reporting : The Washington Post Staff.
• International Reporting : Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times.
• Feature Writing : Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker.
• Commentary : Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe.
• Criticism : Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker.

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