Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels for his novel James. Henry Nichols/AFP via Getty Images Closed subtitles
The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner is here.
Percival Everett won the novel award for novel Jamespowerful reimagination Huckleberry Finn From Jim's perspective, Huck's enslaved companions tell the story of him.
Another well-known winner is Ann Telnaes, a former Washington Post cartoonist, whose editor turned down a comic she created to mock the respect of media and tech leaders for President Donald Trump, resigned earlier this year.
This year, several journalists have been recognized for their coverage of the fentanyl crisis, as well as other awards of excellence regarding reports and criticism.
The prestigious Pulitzer Prize recognizes American achievements in journalism, books, drama and music.
More than 2500 entries submitted in 23 categories each year culminate in the spring. For the 15 awards in journalism, more than 80 respected editors, publishers, writers and educators judged the entry.
On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Awards were opened to administrator Marjorie Miller, to recognize the difficulties of American media and publishers.
“In the midst of the dangers of covering war and natural disasters, there are years of severe financial pressure and layoffs, and now journalists and writers are now facing other threats to legal harassment, ban books, and attacks on their work and legitimacy. These efforts are designed to make criticism, criticism, edit or rewrite history.”
She added that both the finalists and winners of this year need “brave coverage and influential storytelling” and “authors and composers who defend their own values for their own values.”
Public Services
“Granted ProPublica Regarding the urgent reports of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz about pregnant women who died in a situation where doctors desperately need care for fear of “the life of mothers” in the state that violates strict abortion laws.
Breaking news reports
“Granted Washington Post Emergency and inspiring coverage of the July 13 attempt to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including detailed storytelling and keen analysis, combines traditional police coverage with audio and visual forensic evidence. ”
Investigation report
“Granted Reuters The exposure of loose regulations has been boldly reported in the United States and abroad, which makes fentanyl one of the world's deadliest drugs, cheap and available to American users. ”
Explanatory Report
“Granted to Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum The New York Times Writer Matthieu Aikins's view on how the United States sows its own failures in Afghanistan, mainly through support for the murderous militia that drove civilians to the Taliban. ”
Local Report
“Granted to Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher Baltimore Flag and The New York Times To gain a compassionate survey series, capturing the breathtaking dimensions of the Baltimore fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older blacks, creating a complex statistical model that the banners share with other newsrooms. ”
National Report
“Granted Wall Street Journal To document the political and personal transformations of the world's wealthiest people, Elon Musk, including conservative politics, the use of law and illegal drugs, and a private conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ”
International Report
“Granted to Declan Walsh and The New York Times To explanatory investigations into the Sudan conflict include reporting on foreign influence and lucrative gold trade, as well as creepy forensic narratives of the Sudanese army responsible for atrocities and famine. ”
Functional Writing
“Granted to contributor Mark Warren gentleman For sensitive portraits of a Baptist pastor and small town mayor who died of suicide after revealing his secret digital life on a right-wing news website. ”
Comment
“Grant to Mosab Abu Toha, donate, New Yorker Papers on Gaza's physical and emotional holocaust combine profound reports with intimate relationships between memoirs to convey the Palestinian experience of a year and a half of war with Israel. ”
criticize
“Given to Bloomberg City Writer Alexandra Lange, with her elegant and genre writings on the public spaces of the family, cleverly uses interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.”
Editorial Writing
“Granted to Raj Mankad, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg and Leah Binkovitz Houston Chronicles For a powerful series of dangerous train intersections, strict attention was paid to people and communities at risk as newspapers demanded emergency action. ”
Illustration reports and comments
“Granted to Ann Telnaes Washington Post To make harsh comments about powerful people and institutions, with keenness, creativity, and fearlessness, she left the news agency 17 years later. ”
Breakthrough News Photography
“Granted to Doug Mills The New York Times A series of photos of the then-select Donald Trump, including an image of a capture bullet trembling in the air as he spoke. ”
Functional photography
“Granted to Moses Saman, donation, New Yorker Because his black and white image of Sedya Prison in Syria captures the traumatic legacy of Assad's torture chambers, forcing the audience to face the original horror faced by prisoners and taking into account the scars in society. ”
Audio Report
“Faced with obstacles to the U.S. military, the New Yorker staff was granted to the New Yorker staff on the podcast “In the Dark”, a four-year investigation into one of the most famous crimes in the Iraq War – the murder of Iraqi Iraqi civilians who murdered 25 minors.”
novel
“Granted James Written by Percival Everett (Doubleday), a reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn's completion, which allowed Jim to explain the absurdity of race supremacy to Jim's agents and provided a new perspective on the search for family and freedom.
drama
“Granted Purpose Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, it talks about the complex dynamics and legacy of an upper middle-class African-American family whose patriarch was a key figure in the civil rights movement, a skillful fusion of drama and comedy that explores how different generations define legacy. ”
history
“Granted Indigenous countries: Millenniums in North America Kathleen Duval (Randon House) is a panoramic portrait of Native American countries and communities over a thousand years, vivid and accessible to the endurance, creativity, and achievement facing conflict and deprivation. ”
“Comb: Harriet Tubman, Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford University Press) is a rich and transparent and revealing statement about slave rebellion that freed 756 enslaved people in a day, transforming military strategy and family history from bondage to freedom. ”
pass
“Granted Every creature: Understand the great and deadly contest of life Jason Roberts (Random House) is a beautifully written dual biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Debuffon, a contemporary of the 18th century who devoted themselves to identifying and describing the secrets of nature and continuing to influence our world. ”
Memoir or autobiography
“Granted Feeding ghosts: Graphic memoirs Tessa Hulls (MCD Books/FSG), a work that influences literature, art and discovery, has illustrations that have conveyed traumatic experiences to three generations of Chinese women (the author, her mother and grandmother) and family history. ”
poetry
“Granted New and selected poems Marie Howe (WW Norton), a collection of decades of works that mines Quotidian Modern’s experience for our shared evidence of loneliness, mortality and holiness. ”
Normal non-fiction
“Granted To achieve our desperate success: many lives of the Soviet dissident movement Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press) is a history that once studied and revealed how Soviet dissent, how repeatedly put down and come to life again, scattered with a group of brave men committed to fighting for rights that threaten freedom and difficult. ”
Music Awards
Susie Ibarra awarded Sky Islands, a work on ecosystems and biodiversity that challenges the concept of compositional sounds through interweaving, through deep musical talents and improvisational skills that use soloists as creative tools. ”
Special quotes
“The special citation of the late Chuck Stone is because of his groundbreaking work as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement, he was the groundbreaking role of the first black columnist for Philadelphia Daily News, who later co-published with nearly 100 publications and co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists 50 years ago.”
Juliana Kim reported and wrote the story for the numbers. Andrew Limbong reported an audio version of the work.