Pulitzer Prize 2022, Complete Winner List, Indian Winner List, Download PDF

By Ganesh Mankar|Updated : May 12th, 2022

Pulitzer Prize 2022: Winners of the Pulitzer Prize 2022 in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music have been announced. We have come up with the list of Pulitzer Prize 2022 winners, along with other information about Pulitzer Prize. 

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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.

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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.

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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,”.

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