All you need to know about Pulitzer winners 2023

A quartet of The Associated Press reporters won a Pulitzer in 'Public Service' category for their courageous reporting on slaughter of civilians in the besieged city of Mariupol during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Here is a list of other Pulitzer winners along with a brief description of their accomplishments compiled by AP.

New York : The Pulitzer Prizes recognising the best in journalism and arts in 2022 were announced Monday. Here is a list of winners along with with their accomplishments compiled by The Associated Press (AP).

The winners in 'PUBLIC SERVICE' category are Mstyslav Chernov, Lori Hinnant, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko of AP. The quartet of AP reporters won for what the Pulitzers described as courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol about the slaughter of civilians in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. You can find a list of stories the team produced on AP's Erasing Mariupol page.

In 'BREAKING NEWS REPORTING', the winners are the staff of the Los Angeles Times who published a secretly recorded conversation among LA city officials that included racist comments and then followed up with in-depth coverage of the aftermath. In 'INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING', The Wall Street Journal's Capital Assets series analyzed the investments of about 12,000 federal officials and their families between 2016 and 2021. The Journal collected and analyzed data on about 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 transactions. This was a staff award.

In 'EXPLANATORY REPORTING', the winner is The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson who conducted more than 150 interviews as part of an 18-month investigation into former President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy of child separation at the border. In 'LOCAL REPORTING', the reporters of The AL.com, Birmingham, won for a series of stories exposing how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to inflate revenue. The reporting freed people from jail, the outlet says, and resulted in resignations and new laws. Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe's The Backchannel series won for detailing how state officials misspent millions in welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the United States. In one case, Wolfe wrote about how former Gov. Phil Bryant and NFL legend Brett Favre worked together to channel at least USD 5 million of the state's welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre's daughter played the sport.

In 'NATIONAL REPORTING', Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post wrote about the consequences of life after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, including stories about women trying to navigate the aftermath. In 'INTERNATIONAL REPORTING', the staff of The New York Times won for their coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including an investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha. In 'FEATURE WRITING', Eli Saslow of The Washington Post won for what the Pulitzers called evocative individual narratives about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality in the United States. Saslow has since left the Post, joining The New York Times in February. According to the Times announcement, he had been a finalist in this category thrice before and had previously won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.

The following are the winners in the other categories and a brief description of their award-winning coverage.

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: The Associated Press
A team of AP photographers won the Pulitzer for unique and urgent images of the first weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While it was a staff award, AP CEO Daisy Veerasingham wrote that the prize is shared among Rodrigo Abd, Bernat Armangue, Felipe Dana, Nariman El-Mofty, Vadim Ghirda, Evgeniy Maloletka and Emilio Morenatti. See a photo gallery of their work here.

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Christina House, Los Angeles Times
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times won for an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the street in a tent. It was part of a series called Hollywood's Finest, a look at the lives of three women without housing.

COMMENTARY: Kyle Whitmire, AL.com
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham, won for State of Denial, a series of what the Pulitzers called measured and persuasive columns that documented how Alabama's Confederate heritage still lingers.

CRITICISM: Andrea Long Chu, New York magazine
Andrea Long Chu of New York magazine won for book reviews that employ multiple cultural lenses to explore societal issues, the Pulitzers said.

EDITORIAL WRITING: Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangel and Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald
The Miami Herald writers won for Broken Promises, a series of editorials on the failure of Florida public officials to deliver on taxpayer-funded amenities and services long promised to residents.

ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY: Mona Chalabi, The New York Times
New York Times contributor Mona Chalabi won for illustrations that combine statistical reporting with analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. This prize replaced the editorial cartooning award last year, right on the heels of Pulitzer judges declining to name an editorial cartooning winner in 2021.

AUDIO JOURNALISM: Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker
The award went to the staff of Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker, whose Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's investigation into her father's troubled past revealed a larger story of abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at a residential school in Canada.

FICTION: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Trust by Hernan Diaz
The two novels each won the fiction prize. Demon Copperhead is what the Pulitzers called a masterful recasting of David Copperfield,' set in Appalachia. The citation described Trust as riveting and a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.

DRAMA: English by Sanaz Toossi
Sanaz Toossi's English is a quietly powerful play, the Pulitzers said, centred on four adults preparing for an English exam near Tehran, Iran. The classroom drama explores the ways in which language shapes identity, experience and a sense of belonging in the world. According to the Pulitzer website, the jury for this prize attends plays in New York and in regional theatres while the award goes to the playwright, the actual productions of the shows are factored in.

U.S. HISTORY: Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie won the history prize for a book that the Pulitzers describe as a resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by settler colonialism and slavery that illustrates the evolution of white supremacy. Generally speaking, this is the only arts and letters books, music, or drama award that can be awarded to someone who isn't a US citizen (but the book must be a history of the US).

GENERAL NONFICTION: "His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
The book by two Washington Post reporters is what the Pulitzers called an "intimate, riveting portrait of George Floyd, the man whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 sparked an international racial justice movement. The Pulitzer board moved it from the biography category, a release says.

BIOGRAPHY: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage
The prize was awarded to the "deeply researched and nuanced biography of longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, per the citation.

MEMOIR OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY: "Stay True by Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu's memoir won this category for "an elegant and poignant coming of age account," the Pulitzers said.

POETRY: "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips' poetry won for what the Pulitzers called a masterful collection that chronicles American culture."

MUSIC: "Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abel
"Omar" is an innovative and compelling opera about enslaved people brought to North America from Muslim countries," the Pulitzers said. It premiered last May at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. To award the musical competition prize, the website says the jury convenes in New York to listen to recordings and study the scores.