of 2008 pulitzer prize winners announced

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners are out.

For Journalism:
Public Service - The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting - The Washington Post Staff
Investigative Reporting - Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune Staff
Explanatory Reporting - Amy Harmon of The New York Times
Local Reporting - David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
National Reporting - Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post
International Reporting - Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post
Feature Writing - Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post
Commentary - Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post
Criticism - Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing - No Award
Editorial Cartooning - Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily
Breaking News Photography - Adrees Latif of Reuters
Feature Photography - Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor

For Letters and Drama:
Fiction - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead Books)
Drama - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
History - What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
Biography - Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
Poetry - Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
General Nonfiction - The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)

For Music:
The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang, premiered October 25, 2007 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. (G. Schirmer, Inc.)

Special Citation:
Bob Dylan

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