The winners of the 99th Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 20,2015. The Pulitzer Prize is one of the highest awards given in journalism and the arts. At the presentation, Pulitzer administrator Mike Pride said that almost 3,000 entries had been reviewed to decide this year’s winners.

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Here are the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners:

Gold medal for Public Service
The Post and Courier of Charleston, SC

Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Seattle Times

Investigative Reporting
Eric Lipton, New York Times
Staff of the Wall Street Journal

Explanatory Journalism
Zachary R. Mider, Bloomberg News

Local Reporting
Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch, and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, California

National Reporting
Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post

International Reporting
New York Times Staff

Feature Writing
Dianna Marcum, Los Angeles Times

Commentary
Lisa Faulkenberg, Houston Chronicle

Criticism
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times

Editorial Writing
Kathleen Kingsbury, Boston Globe

Editorial Cartooning
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

Breaking News Photography
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff

Feature Photography
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, New York Times

Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Drama
“Between Riverside and Crazy” by Stephen Adly Guirgis

History
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Biography
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

Poetry
Digest by Gregory Pardio

General Nonfiction
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Music
“Anthracite Fields” by Julia Wolfe

About Pulitzer Prizes

1. The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
2. It was established in 1917.
3. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.
4. Each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.
5. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

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