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Pulitzer Prize 2022

2022 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced for all the categories including Journalism, Books, Drama and Music. The Washington Post, Indians Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, and late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters were the prominent winners of Pulitzer Prize 2022.

Background of Pulitzer Prize

Here are some important information about the Pulitzer Prize:

Established: 1917
Introduced by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Administered by: Columbia University.
Basically, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch journalism school and establish the Prize.
He allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships.
After his death on 29th October, 1911, first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917.
Originally, the award categories included 4 awards in journalism, 4 in letters and drama, 1 in education, and 4 travelling scholarships.
It is now awarded annually in 21 categories.
Pulitzer winner in Public Service Category is awarded Gold Medal.

Pulitzer Prize 2022: Complete List of Winners

List of Journalism Category Winners

Categories	Winners	Description
Public Service	The Washington Post	For covering the assault on Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Breaking News Reporting	The Staff of the Miami Herald	For covering the collapse of Seaside apartment towers in Florida
Investigative Reporting	Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, and Eli Murray of the Tampa Bay Times	For exposing highly toxic hazard inside only battery recycling plant in Florida
Explanatory Reporting	Staff of Quanta Magazine and Natalie Wolchover	For covering the complexities of Webb Space Telescope works
Local Reporting	Cecilia Reyes (Chicago Tribune) and Madison Hopkins (Better Government Association)	For piercing examination of city’s long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement
National Reporting	The Staff of the New York Times	Quantified disturbing pattern of fatal traffic stops by police,
International Reporting	The Staff of the New York Times	Exposed vast civilian toll of U.S.-led airstrikes, challenging official accounts of American military engagements in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Feature Writing	Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic
Commentary	Melinda Henneberger of the Kansas City Star
Criticism	Salamishah Tillet, contributing critic at large for The New York Times
Editorial Writing	Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of The Houston Chronicle
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary	Fahmida Azim, Anthong Del Col, Josh Adams, Walt Jockey of Insider
Breaking News Photography	1. Marcus Yam of Los Angeles Times 2. Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and John Cherry of Getty Images	1. for images of US departure from Afghanistan 2. for photos of attack on US Capitol
Feature Photography	Late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave	For images of COVID toll in India
Audio Reporting	Staffs of Futuro Media and PRX	‘Suave’- an immersive profile of a man re-entering society after more than 30 years in Prison

Pulitzer Prize 2022 in Books, Drama & Music

Category	Winners	Authors
Fiction	The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family	Joshua Green
Drama	Fat Ham	James Ijames
History	Covered with Night; Cuba: An American History	Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton); Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
Biography	Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of Jim Crow South	Late Winfred Rembert
Poetry	Frank: sonnets	Diane Seuss
General Notification	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City	Andrea Elliott
Music	Voiceless Mass	Raven Chacon

Pulitzer Prize 2022 Special Citation

Category	Winner
Special Awards & Citations	The Journalists of Ukraine

Indian Journalist in the Pulitzer Prize 2022 List

Danish Siddiqui, who was awarded posthumously, along with Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave were awarded Pulitzer prize 2022 from India.
Danish Siddiqui of Reuters has been given the award posthumously. He was killed during the conflict between Taliban and the Afghan army.
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave were awarded for their images of Covid toll in India.

Indians who have won Pulitzer Prize: A History

A member of the Ghadar Party in America, Indian-American journalist Gobind Behari Lal, was the first from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.
he also received the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
In 2003, Mumbai-born Geeta Anand was part of the team at Wall Street Journal that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on corporate corruption.
In 2016, Indian-American Sanghamitra Kalita, then managing editor of Los Angeles Times, won the Pulitzer in the Breaking News Reporting category with her team for their coverage of the San Bernardino shooting in California in 2015.
In 2000, London-born Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies.
In 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Indian-American physician, biologist and author) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his demystification of cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
In 2020, Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press won the Pulitzer in the Feature Photography category “for striking images captured during a communications blackout in Kashmir depicting life in the contested territory as India stripped it of its semi-autonomy,”.