The Pulitzer Award
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The Pulitzer Prize  is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. 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, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation.

The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically evaluate all applicable works in the media, but only those that have been entered with a $50 entry fee

The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, journalist and newspaper publisher, who founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and bought the New York World. Pulitzer left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced each April. Recipients are chosen by an independent board.

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Journalism: , Public Service , Breaking News Reporting , Investigative Reporting , Explanatory Reporting , Local Reporting
National Reporting , International Reporting , Feature Writing , Commentary , Criticism , Editorial Writing , Editorial Cartooning , Breaking News Photography , Feature Photography , Biography or Autobiography , Fiction , Drama , History , Poetry , General Non-Fiction , Music

Only published reports and photographs by United States-based newspapers or daily news organizations are eligible for the journalism prize.

Pulitzer prizes are decided by the Pulitzer board.

List of Indian origin winners of Pulitzer Prize

Four eminent and enterprising personalities of Indian origin have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Here is a quick look at them.

Gobind Behari Lal: He came to study at the University of California in Berkeley in 1912 on the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Scholarship. He later became the science editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.

Jhumpa Lahiri: The 1967-born Indian American author won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book “Interpreters of Maladies” in 2000. Her first novel “The Namesake” was adapted into a movie by Mira Nair. Lahiri, who is of Bengali descent, is currently a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities appointed by US President Barack Obama.

Geeta Anand: A journalist and writer of Indian origin, Anand writes for the Wall Street Journal and was earlier a political writer for the Boston Globe. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her work on Pompe Disease, a muscular condition, which was made into a movie, “Extraordinary Measures”, and later a book, “The Cure”.

Siddhartha Mukherjee: An M.D., Ph.D., Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and from Harvard Medical School, and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the New York Times and the New Republic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2011 for his book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”.

( Courtesy: Pravasi Today  )