It was left at the doors of the Booker but ‘Fortune’the praised book by Hernán Díaz, can put the seal of the prestigious pPulitzer Prize on its cover. The complex novel by the American born in Argentina has been awarded along with ‘Demon Copperhead’, by Barbara Kingsolver, in the section on fiction of the awards given by the columbia universityprizes to which palmares In the journalistic section, the Spanish Emilio Morenatti has returned, part of the team of photographers from Associated Press who have been recognized for their work portraying the first weeks of the war in Ukraine.
The coverage of that conflict, and specifically the dispatches from Mariupol, has also earned the AP agency he Public Service Pulitzer, the most prominent in terms of media. He has also led in this edition to ‘The New York Times‘ to the award for international reporting, in which the information of the New York newspaper on the Russian invasion and the massacre in Bucha has been highlighted.
Abortion, immigration, pandemic…
The explosive and historic leak by Politico of the draft of the United States Supreme Court ruling that ended up being confirmed when the constitutional protection of the right to abortion It has only managed to be a finalist in the breaking news category (where a work from the ‘Los Angeles Times’ that exposed the racism of local politicians has been recognized), but ‘The Washington Post’ He has won the national journalism award for a series on the consequences of that sentence.
In these Pulitzer there have also been awards for the work of Caitlin Dickerson in ‘The Atlantic’ that explained the politics of separation of immigrant families by Donald Trump and Eli Saslow in the Post, with a portrait of the effects of the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality. The audio reporting award went to ‘Stolen’, a Gimlet Media podcast about the abuse of indigenous children in Canada.
In letters and arts it has been awarded in the section of ‘G-Man’ biographythe portrait of Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hooverand in non-fiction’His name is George Floyd‘, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. ‘Freedom’s Dominion’, a look at the evolution of the movement supremacy white of Jefferson Cowiehas won in the history section while that of poetry It has been for a collection of carl philips. In music it has been recognized ‘omar‘, a Opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels on slaves from Muslim countries.
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