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FACTBOX-Winners of the 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes
07 Apr 2008 21:15:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds second poetry winner)

NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday.

The following is a list of the winners:

PUBLIC SERVICE -- The Washington Post staff for exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms.

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING -- The Washington Post staff for coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING -- The New York Times' Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker for stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other products imported from China, and to Chicago Tribune staff for exposing faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs.

EXPLANATORY REPORTING -- The New York Times' Amy Harmon for her examination of the dilemmas and ethical issues that accompany DNA testing.

LOCAL REPORTING -- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's David Umhoefer for stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees.

NATIONAL REPORTING -- The Washington Post's Jo Becker and Barton Gellman for writing about Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful yet sometimes disguised influence on national policy.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING -- The Washington Post's Steve Fainaru for his series on private security contractors in Iraq.

FEATURE WRITING -- The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten for writing about a world-class violinist who played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters.

COMMENTARY -- The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein for his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity.

CRITICISM -- The Boston Globe's Mark Feeney for his versatile command of the visual arts.

EDITORIAL WRITING -- No award

EDITORIAL CARTOONING -- Investor's Business Daily's Michael Ramirez for his provocative cartoons.

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reuters' Adrees Latif for his photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a demonstration in Myanmar.

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY -- The Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor's Preston Gannaway for her chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness.

FICTION -- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books).

DRAMA -- "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts.

HISTORY -- "What Hath God Wrought" by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press).

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- "Eden's Outcasts" by John Matteson (W.W. Norton).

POETRY -- "Time and Materials" by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and "Failure" by Philip Schultz (Harcourt).

GENERAL NON-FICTION -- "The Years of Extermination" by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins).

MUSIC -- "The Little Match Girl Passion" by David Lang (G. Schirmer).

SPECIAL CITATION -- Bob Dylan for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.
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