Apr 7, 2008
Every year since 1917 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate.
Who Won a Pulitzer Prize In 2008?
| Breaking News Photography | |
| Adrees Latif (Japanese person fatally wounded in Myanmar) | |
| Breaking News Reporting | |
| Washington Post (Coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech) | |
| Commentary | |
| Steven Pearlstein (Columns exploring nation's complicated economic ills) | |
| Criticism | |
| Mark Feeney (Visual arts critisism - film photography and painting) | |
| Editorial Cartooning | |
| Michael Ramirez | |
| Editorial Writing | |
| NO AWARD | |
| Explanatory Reporting | |
| Amy Harmon (Examination of ethical issues accompanying DNA testing) | |
| Feature Photography | |
| Preston Gannaway (Family coping with a parent's terminal illness) | |
| Feature Writing | |
| Gene Weingarten (Story on a world-class violinist playing in a subway station) | |
| International Reporting | |
| Steve Fainaru (Series on private security firms operating in Iraq) | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Walt Bogdanich (Stories on toxic ingredients in Chinese imports) | |
| and Jake Hooker | |
| Investigative Reporting | |
| Chicago Tribune (Exposure of faulty regulation of products for children) | |
| Local Reporting | |
| David Umhoefer (Stories on skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees) | |
| National Reporting | |
| Jo Becker (Exploration of Dick Cheney and his powerful influence on national policy) | |
| and Barton Gellman | |
| Public Service | |
| Washington Post (Exposing mistreatment of wounded vets at Walter Reed hospital) | |
| Biography | |
| John Matteson (Eden's Outcasts) | |
| Drama | |
| Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) |    |
| Fiction | |
| Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao) | |
| General Non-Fiction | |
| Saul Friedlander (The Years Of Extermination) | |
| History | |
| Daniel Walker Howe (What Hath God Wrought) | |
| Music | |
| David Lang (The Little Match Girl Passion) | |
| Poetry | |
| Robert Hass (Time And Materials) | |
| Poetry | |
| Philip Schultz (Failure) | |
| Special Citation | |
| Bob Dylan (Impact on popular music and culture with lyrical and poetic power) | |
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