New York — Tracy Letts has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play August: Osage County and Bob Dylan has been awarded a special music citation. Junot Diaz won the prize for fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Daniel Walker Howe won for history for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. Winning the award for biography was John Matteson for Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. Saul Friedlander won the non-fiction award for The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.
Two prizes were awarded for poetry: Robert Hass for Time and Materials and Philip Schultz for Failure.
David Lang won in music, for The Little Match Girl Passion.
Dylan’s citation noted his "profound impact on popular music and American culture."
On the journalism side of the Pulitzers, The Washington Post was the clear favourite, earning six prizes, including breaking-news reporting for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Other newspapers that earned Pulitzers include The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune andThe Boston Globe.
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