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Pulitzer Prize
Obverse and reverse sides of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service gold medal, designed by Daniel Chester French in 1917
Presented by Columbia University
Country United States
First awarded 1917

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.

It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University.

Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

Images for kids

  • Lee C. Bollinger awarding the 2003 Pulitzer Prize to Jeffrey Eugenides

    Columbia President Lee Bollinger presents the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Jeffrey Eugenides.

  • PupinPulitzer

    The Pulitzer Prize certificate of Mihajlo Pupin, which used a recycled Columbia diploma

  • Columbia University, NYC (June 2014) - 01

    Pulitzer Hall on the Columbia campus

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Premio Pulitzer para niños

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